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82) Codes & ciphers
Author
Series
Usborne superpuzzles. Advanced volume 2
Publisher
EDC publishing
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Series
Cryptology and information security volume 2
Publisher
IOS Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
89) Windtalkers
Language
English
Description
A battle-weary Marine is assigned to guard - and ultimately befriends - a young Navajo soldier who has been trained to be a code talker. This code, the Navajo code, and the men who knew the code, were to be guarded as they went into action. It was the unspoken duty of the Marine to kill the Navajo soldier before he could be taken prisoner of war by the Japanese. This is the one wartime code that was never broken by the enemy.
Author
Series
Publisher
CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Codes are a part of everyday life, from the ubiquitous Universal Price Code (UPC) to postal zip codes. They need not be intended for secrecy. They generally use groups of letters (sometimes pronounceable code words) or numbers to represent other words or phrases. There is typically no mathematical rule to pair an item with its representation in code. A few more examples will serve to illustrate the range of codes"--
Series
Contemporary mathematics volume 360
Publisher
American Mathematical Society
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Series
Contemporary mathematics volume 477
Publisher
American Mathematical Society
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
World War I is often viewed as a war fought by armies of millions living and fighting in trenches, aided by brutal machinery that cost the lives of many. But behind all of this an intellectual war was also being fought between engineers, chemists, code-breakers, physicists, doctors, mathematicians, and intelligence gatherers. This hidden war was to make a positive and lasting contribution to how war was conducted on land, at sea, and in the air, and...