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Codes, Ciphers and Secret Writing (Dover Children's Activity Books) by Gardner, Martin is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Codes, Ciphers and Secret Writing (Dover Children's Activity Books) about?
""A fascinating, challenging book.""--A.L.A. Booklist . Experiment with cryptography - the science of secret writing. Cipher and decipher codes: transposition and polyalphabetical ciphers, famous codes, typewriter and telephone codes, codes that use playing cards, knots, and swizzle sticks ... even invisible writing and sending messages through outer space. Hours of intrigue and challenge. 45 diagrams.;Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; 1 Easy Transposition Ciphers; The Rail Fence Cipher; The Twisted Path Cipher; Scrambling with a Key Word; 2 Easy Substitution Ciphers; Shift Ciphers; Date Shift Ciphers; Key Word Ciphers; The Pigpen Cipher; The Polybius Checkerboard; Random Substitution Ciphers; The Shadow's Code; 3 How to Break Substitution Ciphers; 4 Hard-to-break Polyalphabetic Ciphers; Porta's Digraphic Cipher; The Playfair Cipher; Lewis Carroll's Vigenère Cipher; 5 Simple Code Machines; Typewriter Codes; A Telephone Dial Code; The Scytale; The Alberti Disk.
Who reads Codes, Ciphers and Secret Writing (Dover Children's Activity Books)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Gardner, Martin
- Publisher
- Dover Publications : Made available through hoopla
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781562949235
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Games, Fiction, Reference
- Rating
- 3.83 / 5 (133 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14