Arabic in the Sciences
On Deciphering Cryptographic Messages
استخراج المعمّى
Al-Kindi's treatise on solving ciphers is the oldest known text on breaking codes by counting how often letters occur – unknown in Europe until its publication in 1987.
- Author
- al-Kindi (d. c. 870)
- Field
- Codes, geography, farming and machines
- Arabic title
- رسالةٌ في استخراج المُعَمّى
- Latin title
- None – not known in medieval Europe
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