Science Quote by David Kahn

“This kind of work, particularly in the early stages of a difficult cryptanalysis, is perhaps the most excruciating, exasperating, agonizing mental process known to…

— David Kahn

“Cryptology served magical purposes frequently throughout the Middle Ages, and even in the Renaissance was still disguising important parts of alchemical formulas.”

— David Kahn

“All this stained cryptology so deeply with the dark hues of esoterism that some of them still persist, noticeably coloring the public image of…

— David Kahn

The introduction of the cipher 0 or the group concept was general nonsense too, and mathematics was more or less stagnating for thousands of…

— Alexander Grothendieck

“He served as a cryptanalyst with the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, and returned to River-bank to write an 87-page tract that…

— David Kahn

“the most famous of all those who had an acquaintance with cryptology in the Middle Ages was an English customs official, amateur astronomer, and…

— David Kahn

What affected me most profoundly was the realization that the sciences of cryptography and mathematics are very elegant, pure sciences. I found that the…

— Anonymous

“Every weapon of cryptanalytic science—which in the stratospheric realm of this solution drew heavily upon mathematics, using group theory, congruences, Poisson distributions—was thrown into…

— David Kahn

“The history of science is replete with abandoned concepts and theories. For instance, early modern scientists who tried to account for the movement of…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Cryptography has generated number theory, algebraic geometry over finite fields, algebra, combinatorics and computers.

— Vladimir Arnold

“Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest…

— Robert A. Heinlein

“Unlike him I had been unable to escape into the simple complexities of science. All he had to do was solve the mystery of…

— Walker Percy