I want to know which book to start with for studying symbology and cryptography

Question

i want to know more about the language of symbols and the way they have been used in cryptography over the years .and get a hold on this thing ...please help

Answer 1

1.  Brute Force: Cracking the Data Encryption Standard by Matt Curtin

2.  Cryptanalysis of Number Theoretic Ciphers (Computational Mathematics) by Jr., Samuel S. Wagstaff

3.  Introduction to Cryptography with Coding Theory by Wade Trappe

4.  Cryptographic Libraries for Developers (Programming Series) by Ed Moyle

5.  Java Cryptography (Java Series) by Jonathan Knudsen