"Recruited by the U.S. Army and Navy from small towns and elite colleges, more than ten thousand women served as codebreakers during World War II. While their brothers and boyfriends took up arms, these women moved to Washington and learned the meticulous work of code-breaking. …
Introduction: ciphers and the material history of literacy / Katherine Ellison and Susan Kim -- Medieval musical notes as cryptography / Elsa DeLuca and John Haines -- Keeping history : images, texts, ciphers, and the Franks Casket / Susan Kim and Asa Simon Mittman -- Anglo-Saxo…
"The first cultural history of early modern cryptography, this collection brings together scholars in history, literature, music, the arts, mathematics, and computer science who study ciphering and deciphering from new materialist, media studies, cognitive studies, disability st…
The first cultural history of early modern cryptography, this collection brings together scholars in history, literature, music, the arts, mathematics, and computer science who study ciphering and deciphering from new materialist, media studies, cognitive studies, disability stu…
"The first cultural history of early modern cryptography, this collection brings together scholars in history, literature, music, the arts, mathematics, and computer science who study ciphering and deciphering from new materialist, media studies, cognitive studies, disability st…
The first edition of this award-winning book attracted a wide audience. This second edition is both a joy to read and a useful classroom tool. Unlike traditional textbooks, it requires no mathematical prerequisites and can be read around the mathematics presented. If used as a t…
Front Cover; Contents; Note to the Reader; Introduction; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 - Ancient Roots; Chapter 2 - Monalphabetic Substitution Ciphers, or MASCs: Disguises for Messages; Chapter 3 - Simple Progression to an Unbreakable Cipher; Chapter 4 - Transposition Ciphers; Chap…
