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Simon Lehna Singh, MBE (born 19 September 1964) is a British popular science author, theoretical and particle physicist. His written works include Fermat's Last Theorem (in the United States titled Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem), [6] [7] The Code Book [8] (about cryptography and its history), Big Bang [9] (about the Big Bang theory and the ...
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography is a book by Simon Singh, published in 1999 by Fourth Estate and Doubleday. The Code Book describes some illustrative highlights in the history of cryptography , drawn from both of its principal branches, codes and ciphers .
The pula (also known as the Botswana dollar) is the currency of Botswana.It has the ISO 4217 code BWP and is subdivided into 100 thebe. Pula literally means "rain" in Setswana, because rain is very scarce in Botswana—home to much of the Kalahari Desert—and therefore valuable and a blessing.
Three electronic versions of BWP have been produced. The first, produced by OUP, suffered from a number of technical problems. [6] The second, known as "BWPi", was produced by BirdGuides Ltd. This included the full text of the nine volumes, the Concise Edition, all updates from BWP Update, new video and audio, and recent taxonomical changes. [7]
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The book is the first mathematics book to become a Number One seller in the United Kingdom, [5] whilst Singh's documentary The Proof, on which the book was based, won a BAFTA in 1997. [ 6 ] In the United States, the book was released as Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem .
The New York Times described it as a "highly entertaining book". [2] The book was well-received by The Simpsons staff; Simpsons writer and Futurama co-creator David X. Cohen said "Simon Singh's excellent book blows the lid off a decades-long conspiracy to educate cartoon viewers." Mike Reiss compared it favorably to the works of Martin Gardner.