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Singh, Simon

 
9780007176045: The Cracking Code Book: How to make it, break it, hack it, crack it
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ISBN 10: 000717604X ISBN 13: 9780007176045
Editorial: HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks, 2004

Sinopsis

How to make it, break it, hack it, crack it.
The secret history of codes and code breaking.

Simon Singh’s best-selling title The Code Book now re-issued for the young-adult market.

The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography.

Simon Singh brings life to an amazing story of puzzles, codes, languages and riddles – revealing the continual pursuit to disguise and uncover, and to work out the secret languages of others.

Codes have influenced events throughout history, both in the stories of those who make them and those who break them. The betrayal of Mary Queen of Scots and the cracking of the enigma code that helped the Allies in World War II are major episodes in a continuing history of cryptography. In addition to stories of intrigue and warfare, Simon Singh also investigates other codes, the unravelling of genes and the rediscovery of ancient languages and most tantalisingly, the Beale ciphers, an unbroken code that could hold the key to a $20 million treasure.

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Acerca del autor

Simon Singh is a science journalist and TV producer. Having completed his Ph.D. 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.

De la contraportada

From intrigue and warfare to genetics and the Internet - the secret science of codes revealed.

Did you know that Mary Queen of Scots was betrayed by a coded message? Or that there exists a code so complex that no one has yet been able to decipher it?

Take trip through time and see how the secret history of codes and ciphers has changed the world; glimpse a future where quantum physics could alter the science of secret communications for ever.

This book tells you all you need to know about puzzles, codes, riddles and ciphers; secret languages and the art of deception.

Oh, yes, and that undecipherable code? If you can crack it, you could win a treasure worth millions of pounds.

'Singh's power of explaining complex ideas is as dazzling as ever' Guardian

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Editorial
HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks
Año de publicación
2004
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
000717604X
ISBN 13 
9780007176045
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
274
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