clear . In the preface justifying his rejection of a pedantically more accurate title for his book Singh states "I have, however, forsaken accuracy for snappiness ." With hindsight this is ominous . His carelessness with facts will not harm those readers who pick up the book, skim it, and find th e subject not to their taste . Nor will it harm the enthusiasts (like myself), who will seek out other , more reliable books .3 But most, I suspect, will fall in the middle ground : interested readers wh o will rely on this book alone for their information about cryptography. This group, which will mine Singh's book for years, if not decades, for term paper and lecture material, and possibly materia l for other books, will be disserved by the author's lax standards of accuracy . DNA Based Computers V Editors : Eric Winfree and David K . Giffor d Publisher : American Mathematics Societ y Series : DIMACS Series in Discrete Mathematics and TCS Volume 5 4 ISBN: 0-8218-2053-2, Hardcover, 249 pages Review by Mitsunori Ogihara,Dept of Computer Science, Univ . of Rocheste r 1 Overview DNA based computation (or molecular computation)
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