by Sarah Flannery, David Flannery · PROFILE BOOKS LTD · tapa dura · ISBN 9781861972224
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«In Code: A Mathematical Journey» is the autobiography of Sarah Flannery with David Flannery, published by Profile Books in hardcover (192 pages, in English).
Sarah Flannery recounts with her father and tutor David how, at sixteen, she devised the Cayley-Purser encryption algorithm, a fast and secure system for encoding data on the internet, with which she won the Irish Young Scientist of the Year award in 1999. The work combines her personal story with mathematical explanations and puzzles.
First edition published on March 20, 2000. The work is catalogued as biography, mathematics and cryptography.
Aimed at young people interested in science, mathematics students and readers of popular biographies.
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