The World's Most Complex Code — The Voynich Manuscript (Part 1)

The Voynich Manuscript is one of the most mysterious unsolved problems in the field of cryptography. Originally discovered in an obscure location by one of the largest booksellers in the world, the manuscript has been the source of much speculation and thought by some of the greatest cryptographers and linguists in history.

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Image Credits:

1) Beinecke Library: Ragesoss / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)
2) Roger Bacon: Michael Reeve, 30 May 2004. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ro... (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)
3) Bruce McAdam from Reykjavik, Iceland / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)

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Sources and Citations:

1) Blog of René Zandbergen, 2004 - 2020 (http://www.voynich.nu/)

2) https://www.nsa.gov/Portals/70/docume...

3) https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...

4) https://voynichportal.com/

5) Wikipedia contributors, "Voynich manuscript," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...

6) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Vo...

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Additional Reading:

1) Information Theory and Linguistics: (https://cs.stanford.edu/people/erober...)

2) General Linguistics: (https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/linguisti...)

3) Vsauce on Zipf's Law: (   • The Zipf Mystery  )

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