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An engrossing and fascinating tale, The Code Book contains many
accounts of code-breaking in action, from its use in unmasking the Man in the
Iron Mask and the defeat of the Nazis to the breaking of a modern cipher system
by a world-wide army of amateurs in 1994. |
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Just six numbers govern the shape, size and texture of our
universe. If their values were only fractionally different, we would not exist;
nor, in many cases, would matter have had a chance to form. Here, Martin Rees
provides a useful, absorbing and accessible contribution to lay understanding
of cosmology, astrophysics and mathematical astrophysics. |
