Ebook Codes - The Guide to Secrecy From Ancient to Modern Times

This book has been written with a broad spectrum of readers in mind, which includes anyone interested in secrecy and related issues. Thus, this is a tome for the merely curious, as well as history-minded readers, amateur mathematicians, engineers, bankers, academics, students, those practitioners working in cryptography, specialists in the field, and instructors wanting to use the book for a text in a course on a variety of topics related to codes. We will look atthis topic from all aspects including not only those related to cryptography (the study of methods for sending messages in secret), but also the notion of codes as removal of noise from telephone channels, satellite signals, CDs and the like.