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The Code Book

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13 Aug 2008

Just finished reading ‘The Code Book’ by Simon Singh. I’d been waiting to read this book for a long time now, but I had been delaying it for reasons beyond me.
The book goes into excruciating details at explaining the details of various cryptographic systems; from the Vigenere ciper to Quantum cryptography, without being prosaic. The [...]

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hasta la vista MIR

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10 Jul 2008

Yesterday while rummaging through my library I came across a little gem – On the way to Super Elements by G.N. Flerov, A.S .Ilynov – Mir Publishers Moscow. A wonderful book by the now defunct Mir publishers. This is one of the several books from Mir that I have treasured in my library. These books [...]


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