In his first book since the bestselling Fermat’s Enigma, Simon Singh offers the first sweeping history of encryption, tracing its evolution and revealing the dramatic effects codes have had on wars, n…
Shelve The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
What do flashlights, the British invasion, black cats, and seesaws have to do with computers? In CODE, they show us the ingenious ways we manipulate language and invent new means of communicating with…
Shelve Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
The first book, The State, represents a radically new political system of society, one which is the most democratic system ever possible! This is a compl…
Shelve Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code—Socialism with a Human Face: (A New World Order)
Inthe tradition of Fermat’s Enigma and Pi , Marcus du Sautoy tells the illuminating, authoritative, and engagingstory of Bernhard Reimann and the ongoing quest tocapture the holy grail of mathematics—…
Manfred Schiller is the world's most powerful and richest citizen He controls an enormous industry that covers most aspects of everyday life. The key to controlling his organization is a week-old baby…
A work of popular science in the tradition of Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan, this 20th-anniversary edition of James Gleick’s groundbreaking bestseller Chaos introduces a whole new readership to chaos…
Widely considered one of the best practical guides to programming, Steve McConnell’s original code complete has been helping developers write better software for more than a decade. Now this classic b…
Shelve Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction
A world-class mathematician and regular contributor to the New York Times hosts a delightful tour of the greatest ideas of math, revealing how it connects to literature, philosophy, law, medicine, art…
Shelve The Joy of X: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity
G.H. Cambridge University FIRST First Edition Thus, 4th Printing (2000). Not price-clipped. Published by Cambridge University Press, 1992. Octavo. Paperback. Book is very good with light shelf wear. …
Through Euclid's Window Leonard Mlodinow brilliantly and delightfully leads us on a journey through five revolutions in geometry, from the Greek concept of parallel lines to the latest notions of hype…
Shelve Euclid's Window: The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace
The magnificent, unrivaled history of codes and ciphers—how they're made, how they're broken, and the many and fascinating roles they've played since the dawn of civilization in war, business, diploma…
Shelve The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet
A fascinating exploration of how insights from computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives, helping to solve common decision-making problems and illuminate the workings of the human mind
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Shelve Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
A perennial bestseller by eminent mathematician G. Polya, How to Solve It will show anyone in any field how to think straight. In lucid and appealing prose, Polya reveals how the mathematical method o…
Shelve How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method (Princeton Science Library)
Without calculus, we wouldn’t have cell phones, TV, GPS, or ultrasound. We wouldn’t have unraveled DNA or discovered Neptune or figured out how to put 5,000 songs in your pocket.
Though many of us we…
Shelve Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
Douglas Hofstadter's book is concerned directly with the nature of “maps” or links between formal systems. However, according to Hofstadter, the formal system that underlies all mental activity transc…
Shelve Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
In January 2010, inspectors with the International Atomic Energy Agency noticed that centrifuges at a uranium enrichment plant in Iran were failing and being replaced at an unprecedented rate. The cau…
Shelve Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
Among the famous battles of World War II, the longest and most critical was the Battle of the Atlantic--the struggle between the American convoys bringing supplies to Britain and the German U-boats be…
Shelve Seizing The Enigma: The Race To Break The German U-boat Codes, 1939-1943
The overwhelming majority of a software system's lifespan is spent in use, not in design or implementation. So, why does conventional wisdom insist that software engineers focus primarily on the desig…
Shelve Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems
