From the best-selling author of Fermat's Last Theorem, The Code Book is a history of man's urge to uncover the secrets of codes, from Egyptian puzzles to modern day computer e. There is nothing quite like the satisfaction of applying the skills described in this book to unlock the mysterious secret messages. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. The story blends philosophy, history, theory and language into a surprisingly lively (considering the characters are monks) human story. A refreshing read that complements most books on cryptography that concentrate on mathematics or technology.

With their inextricable links to history, mystery and war, codes and ciphers offer a rich seam of material for any author. The most authoritative and revealing examination yet of the way intelligence--of all kinds--was instrumental in defeating Japan. It highlights the tremendous lengths and difficulties people went through to develop the techniques that we today take for granted; the latter is particularly satesfying for a student feeling overwhelmed by some of the course material.The Enigma story and Bletchley Park are now legitimate subjects for academic study, but modern books are necessarily written by people without first-hand experience of wartime Intelligence work. Many specimens with images, ranging from encrypted postcards to historical messages, are conveniently classified in chapters and their solutions are explained.

Perhaps the most famous, and amongst the most imaginative and unconventional, was Alan Turing, so this book fully deserves a place on my list. As a gay man born into an evangelical Christian family, my coming out story was wrought with pain, trauma, and separation from family and loved ones. In 1999, he wrote The Code Book which was also an international bestseller and the basis for the Channel 4 series The Science of Secrecy.An extraordinarily detailed and revealing account of scientific progress and competition that grants readers behind-the-scenes access to the scientific process, which the COVID-19 pandemic has taught us remains opaque to the wider public. For more than a decade, I led a team of experts trying to decipher the levels of meaning in the pop culture works of Dan Brown.