Secret History: The Story of Cryptology (密史:密碼學的故事)

Bauer, Craig

  • 出版商: CRC
  • 出版日期: 2024-08-26
  • 售價: $2,820
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$2,679
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 614
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 0367685744
  • ISBN-13: 9780367685744
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商品描述

This unique, award winning book offers a thorough yet accessible treatment of both the mathematics and history of cryptology. Requiring minimal mathematical perparation, the book presents the mathematics in sufficient detail and weaves the history throughout the chapters. In addition to the fascinating historical and political sides of cryptology, the author-a former Scholar-in-Residence at the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) Center for Cryptologic History-includes interesting instances of codes and ciphers in crime, literature, music, and art. The book helps further enlivens the already extremely popular field of cryptology.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

這本獨特且獲獎的書籍提供了對密碼學的數學和歷史的全面而易於理解的探討。該書對數學的要求極少,並以足夠的細節呈現數學內容,並在各章中穿插歷史背景。除了密碼學迷人的歷史和政治面向外,作者——曾任美國國家安全局(NSA)密碼學歷史中心的駐校學者——還包括了在犯罪、文學、音樂和藝術中有趣的代碼和密碼實例。這本書進一步活化了已經極受歡迎的密碼學領域。

作者簡介

Craig P. Bauer is an associate professor of mathematics at York College of Pennsylvania and the editor-in-chief of Cryptologia. He was the 2011-2012 Scholar-in-Residence at the National Security Agency (NSA) Center for Cryptologic History, where he wrote several papers for NSA journals, gave numerous lectures, and made substantial progress on a second book focused on unsolved codes and ciphers. He earned a PhD in mathematics at North Carolina State University.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Craig P. Bauer 是賓夕法尼亞州約克學院的數學副教授,也是《Cryptologia》的主編。他曾擔任2011-2012年度國家安全局(NSA)密碼學歷史中心的駐校學者,在那裡他為NSA期刊撰寫了幾篇論文,進行了多場講座,並在專注於未解碼和密碼的第二本書上取得了重大進展。他在北卡羅來納州立大學獲得數學博士學位。