书名：The Code Book 码书：编码与解码的战争 人类智力的另类较量  /密码书 /密码故事

作者：Simon Singh

出版社名称：Anchor

出版时间：2000

语种：英语

ISBN：9780385495325

商品尺寸：13 x 2.2 x 20.2 cm

包装：平装

自从人类开始会用笔书写，他们就开始用密码通讯了。密码并不仅仅与电报、军事或爱情相关，它已进入人类生活的很多层面：信用卡、保险柜、电脑等等。密码无处不在，同时又随时可能被破译。围绕密码所展开的斗争甚至远胜于战争本身，它既是人类智力的另类较量，又是数学的神秘之美的比拼。在《密码故事》中，作者西蒙·辛格讲述了关于间谍、阴谋和聪明才智的精彩故事，揭示了密码学引人入胜的历史。

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 you wonder how private that e-mail you just sent really is.

西蒙·辛格（Simon Singh）在剑桥大学得到了物理学博士学位，曾在BBC做制片人。执导的纪录片《费马大定理》荣获了BAFTA（英国电影和电视艺术学院）大奖，同时他撰写了与纪录片同名的畅销书。

Simon Singh is the author of Fermat’s Enigma and The Code Book. He lives in London. He received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Cambridge. A BBC producer, he directed and coproduced an award-winning documentary film on Fermat’s last Theorem that aired on PBS’s “Nova” series.

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