Mr. Babbage's secret : the tale of a cypher - and APL

by Ole Immanuel Franksen

Paper Book, 1984

Status

Available

Call number

001.54

Library's review

Indeholder "Foreword by H. H. Goldstine", "Prologue", "The Philosophy of Decyphering", "1.1 A List of Works", "1.2 Expert Witness", "1.3 From Authoritative Sources", "1.4 Royal Correspondence", "1.5 From Babbage's Library", "1.6 APL Terminal Session", "Between Mathematics and Reality", "2.1 The
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Philosophy of Analysis", "2.2 The Principle of Permanence of Form", "2.3 A Question of Relative Position", "2.4 Geometrically Speaking", "2.5 It Began With ABC", "2.6 Metric Versus Non-Metric", "2.7 According to Professor Petersen", "2.8 Pinning Down an Invariant", "2.9 The Erlanger Program", "2.10 The Scaling of Data", "2.11 Up to an Ordinal Scale", "2.12 APL Terminal Session", "A Conservation Law of the Message", "3.1 Language is Pattern", "3.2 I. B. Lindenfels, a Major in Frederik VI's Army", "3.3 The Vigenère Cipher", "3.4 How to Impale a Law", "3.5 Laws on Laws", "3.6 Foreign Supremacy", "3.7 APL Terminal Session", "Epilogue", "Notes, References and Acknowledgements", " The Philosophy of Decyphering", " Between Mathematics and Reality", " A Conservation Law of the Message".

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Ole Immanuel Franksen beskriver Babbage's forsøg på at lave computeriseret kodeknækning.

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Publication

Birkerød : Strandberg, 1984.

Language

Original language

English

Physical description

319 p.; 22 cm

ISBN

8787200864 / 9788787200868

Local notes

Omslag: Ole Immanuel Franksen
Omslaget viser APL solution of an advertisement in the Times, 31 July 1854. The latter advertisement and another from the Times, 28 Jan 1856. The Viking fortress, Nonnebakken. Courtesy Nationalmuseet, Copenhagen. A Magic square. Cipher poem to a young lady, by William Whewell. The runic checkerboard alphabet, Futhark. Babbage's formulation of his law for the Vigenère cipher. By permission of the British Library.
Indskannet omslag - N650U - 150 dpi
Dette eksemplar har en hilsen til Birger Nielsen fra Ole Immanuel Franksen fra 24/4 2002.

Mr. Babbages secret : the tale of a cypher - and APL

Pages

319

Library's rating

Rating

(1 rating; 4)

DDC/MDS

001.54
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