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“Slight Creasing To Spine and Wear To Edges Of Pages”
Book Title
The Science of Secrecy: The Secret History of Codes and Codebrea
UPC
9781841154350
ISBN
9781841154350
EAN
9781841154350

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In each episode of The Science of Secrecy Simon Singh tells us a fascinating story from the history of codes: how the course of Crimean War was changed by the cracking of unbreakable Vigenere code; how the well-timed cracking of a single encoded telegram altered the course of World War I or how the mysteries of the Rosetta stone were revealed. The programme, and book, also investigates present day concerns about privacy on the internet and public key cryptography and looks to the future and the possibilities that quantum computing will radically change the science of secrecy in the 21st century.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Fourth Estate Ltd, Harpercollins Publishers
ISBN-10
1841154350
ISBN-13
9781841154350
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96398884

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
Xi, 224 Pages
Publication Name
Science of Secrecy : the Secret History of Codes and Codebreaking
Language
English
Subject
Popular Science
Type
Textbook
Author
Simon Singh
Subject Area
Language Arts & Disciplines
Format
Hardback

Dimensions

Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
20.1 Oz
Item Length
9.4 in
Item Width
7.3 in
Height
238mm
Width
186mm
Weight
580g

Additional Product Features

Date of Publication
04/10/2000
Place of Publication
London
Genre
Popular Science
Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Author Biography
Simon Singh is a science journalist and TV producer. Having completed his PhD at Cambridge he worked from 1991 to 1997 at the BBC producing Tomorrow's World and co-directing the BAFTA award-winning documentary Fermat's Last Theorem for the Horizon series. In 1997, he published Fermat's Last Theorem, which was a no 1 best-seller in Britain and translated into 22 languages. In 1999, he published The Code Book.
Content Note
(B/W Integrated)
Edition Statement
New Edition

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