Title:
The Gambler and the Scholars Herbert Yardley, William & Elizebeth Friedman, and the Birth of Modern American Cryptology
Author:
Dooley, John F. author.
ISBN:
9783031283185
Edition:
1st ed. 2023.
Physical Description:
XIII, 332 p. 1 illus. online resource.
Series:
History of Computing,
Contents:
1. Introduction -- 2. Beginnings - Herbert Yardley -- 3. Beginnings - William Friedman and Elizebeth Smith -- 4. The Great War - Meetings -- 5. Wars End -- 6. What Might Have Been -- 7. The Cipher Bureau: Early Days -- 8. The Lone Cryptologists: Escape from Riverbank -- 9. The Cipher Bureau: Success and Decline -- 10. The Lone Cryptologists: Washington Life -- 11. Cryptologic Endings and Beginnings -- 12. The American Black Chamber -- 13. A Pretty Young Woman in a Pink Dress -- 14. One Career After Another -- 15. Red and Purple -- 16. Yardley Abroad -- 17. The Friedmans at War - William -- 18. The Friedmans at War - Elizebeth -- 19. Yardley's War -- 20. Endings -- 21. Memories of Friedman and Yardley -- Appendix - A Few Words of Cryptology -- Bibliography -- Photo and Illustration Credits.
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Electronic Access:
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28318-5Copies:
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