Book description
How to make it, break it, hack it, crack it.
The secret history of codes and code breaking.
Simon Singh's best-selling title The Code Book now re-issued for the
young-adult market.
The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography.
Simon Singh brings life to an amazing story of puzzles, codes,
languages and riddles - revealing the continual pursuit to disguise and
uncover, and to work out the secret languages of others.
Codes have influenced events throughout history, both in the stories of
those who make them and those who break them. The betrayal of Mary Queen
of Scots and the cracking of the enigma code that helped the Allies in
World War II are major episodes in a continuing history of cryptography.
In addition to stories of intrigue and warfare, Simon Singh also
investigates other codes, the unravelling of genes and the rediscovery
of ancient languages and most tantalisingly, the Beale ciphers, an
unbroken code that could hold the key to a million treasure. The Code Book
'…fascinating … replete with tales of intrigue, political chicanery,
military secrecy and academic rivalry.' The Irish Times
'A Great Book.' Observer
Fermat's Last Theorem
'If you enjoyed Dava Sobel's Longitude you will enjoy this.' Evening Standard
'Far from being a dry textbook it reads like the chronicle of an
obsessive love affair. It has the classic ingredients that Hollywood
would recognise.' Daily Mail Simon Singh is an author, science
journalist and TV producer. Having completed his PhD at Cambridge he
worked from 1991 to 1997 at the BBC producing Tomorrow's World and
co-directing the BAFTA award-winning documentary Fermat's Last Theorem
for the Horizon series. In 1997, he published Fermat's Last Theorem,
which was a best-seller in Britain and translated into 22 languages.
