Author

Books by Simon Singh

Simon Singh is a British science writer with a PhD in particle physics from Cambridge. His other books include Fermat's Last Theorem, which traces the 350-year proof of the problem and became a bestseller, and The Big Bang, a history of cosmological science. Singh writes with the conviction that non-specialists can understand difficult mathematics if it is explained with sufficient care and context. He has also written for The Sunday Times and produced documentary films for the BBC. The Code Book, published in 1999, has sold over a million copies and is considered one of the best popular treatments of cryptography.