Selected Product:
| The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
Paperback
Edition: Reprint
Author: Simon Singh
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date: 2000-08-29
ISBN-10: 0385495323
ISBN-13: 9780385495325
List Price: $15.95
Average Customer Rating:
 | |
Codes, Ciphers and Secret Writing (Test Your Code Breaking Skills)
ISBN-10: 0486247619
ISBN-13: 9780486247618
List Price:$4.95
Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem
ISBN-10: 0385493622
ISBN-13: 9780385493628
List Price:$13.95
Cryptography Decrypted
ISBN-10: 0201616475
ISBN-13: 9780201616477
List Price:$44.99
Cryptanalysis
ISBN-10: 0486200973
ISBN-13: 9780486200972
List Price:$9.95
Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe (P.S.)
ISBN-10: 0007162219
ISBN-13: 9780007162215
List Price:$15.95
Cryptography Decrypted
ISBN-10: 0201616475
ISBN-13: 0785342616477
List Price:$39.99
|
To use our price comparison to get the cheapest price, please click on the "Find the Cheapest Price" button located above for The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography by Simon Singh (ISBN-10: 0385495323, ISBN-13: 9780385495325).
At this time we have not yet written a review for The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography by Simon Singh (ISBN-10: 0385495323, ISBN-13: 9780385495325). Please continue to keep checking back to this page as we are constantly adding reviews.
Summaries and Customer Reviews are supplied by Amazon.com
In his first book since the bestselling Fermat's Enigma, Simon Singh offers the first sweeping history of encryption, tracing its evolution and revealing the dramatic effects codes have had on wars, nations, and individual lives. From Mary, Queen of Scots, trapped by her own code, to the Navajo Code Talkers who helped the Allies win World War II, to the incredible (and incredibly simple) logisitical breakthrough that made Internet commerce secure, The Code Book tells the story of the most powerful intellectual weapon ever known: secrecy.
Throughout the text are clear technical and mathematical explanations, and portraits of the remarkable personalities who wrote and broke the world's most difficult codes. Accessible, compelling, and remarkably far-reaching, this book will forever alter your view of history and what drives it. It will also make yo wonder how private that e-mail you just sent really is.
Cryptography 101
| Customer Rating: | As always Simon Singn takes the reader on a fantastic trip through History. Filled with entertaining stories, puzzles and heroic events, the author skillfully covers the history of secret writing. If you liked his coverage of Fermat's Enigma then you will definitely enjoy this book.
The prose is capturing, deep enough to fascinate technical readers and light enough to just entertain the casual reader. I specialized in Quantum computers while studying Mathematics and I am astonished that the author manages to explain such non-trivial subjects as quantum computers and cryptography to the degree where ordinary readers can actually understand how they work and their impact on ciphers such as RSA/DSA. In short another great read from one of the best and most entertaining technical writers who ever lived. |
Excellent reading on evolution of cryptography
| Customer Rating: | | Simon Singh books usually hold you from the first page and till the end. "The code book" is very well written and very informative. You will see how it's started and where cryptography goes, but even more interesting part of history of cryptography - life (sometimes secret life) of people who worked and continue to work on development of cryptosystems. |
Excellent
| Customer Rating: | | Nutshell review - This is an excellent book covering the history of cryptography up to present day and into the near future. Very well written, easy to understand and worth reading by any layperson interested in the topic. |
Solve any Enigma
| Customer Rating: | | If you want to know about codes, secrets, cryptography and cryptanalysis then this is the book. Simon Singh presents the history of codes in a clear and simple way. Without the mathematics to disturb the flow of the story, you enjoy plots, conspiracies, secrets and algorithms. Excellent for general knowledge and for an introductory text in cryptanalysis. Buy it! |
excellent
| Customer Rating: | | great book regarding the history of cryptography. The only way to truly understand anything is c the history of it's introduction |
|
