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	Simon Singh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Simon Lehna Singh (born 1964) is a British author with a doctorate in physics, who has specialized in writing about mathematical and scientific topics in an accessible manner.
		He is the youngest of three brothers, his eldest brother being Tom Singh.
		In 2003, Singh was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to Science, Technology and Engineering in Education and Science Communication.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Simon_Singh (637 words)

	Big Bang by Simon Singh
		Simon Singh gives a wonderful account of how these were calculated, using his crystal-clear prose and well chosen diagrams.
		Simon Singh's account reveals the full glory of Greek astronomy, which cast off explanations based on gods and myths and replaced them with scientific models.
		Simon Singh gives a full account of them and their work, and how it was used by Edwin Hubble.
	www.321books.co.uk /reviews/big-bang-simon-singh.htm (1435 words)

	Salon Books \| "The Code Book" by Simon Singh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Singh begins his story with the simple alphabetic cipher, a letter-by-letter encoding that lives on today in the humble cryptogram.
		Singh, the British science journalist who wrote the popular "Fermat's Enigma," has a gift for explaining the nuts and bolts of even the most intricate cryptographic systems; it is nothing short of astonishing to watch the Enigma cipher crumble before your eyes through a series of logical deductions that a lay reader can easily follow.
		Singh goes beyond the technical details of cryptography to profile the people behind the codes; his book is full of enlivening biographical details and deft portraits of some of the quirkier figures in the history of mathematics, computer science, archaeology and diplomacy.
	www.salon.com /books/review/1999/10/06/singh (762 words)

	Guardian \| Big Bang by Simon Singh
		Singh's brazen use of the actual science is a useful for two reasons.
		Singh presents a tightly structured history of the key players in humankind's realisation of how much space really is out there.
		And, as Singh shows, coming up with a theory of how the universe began is possibly the most creative thing of all.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5032756-111414,00.html (362 words)

	Amazon.ca: Editorial Reviews Books: The Code Book: the Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Singh's compelling history is woven through with stories of how codes and ciphers have played a vital role in warfare, politics, and royal intrigue.
		Singh celebrates a group of unsung heroes of WWII, the Navajo "code talkers," Native American Marine radio operators who, using a coded version of their native language, played a vital role in defeating the Japanese in the Pacific.
		Although the quantum-mechanical encryption with which Singh culminates his narrative is challengingly arcane to most except for the math spooks at the National Security Agency, Singh successfully conveys its essential principles, as he does those of all major ciphering schemes.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/books/0385495323/reviews (3695 words)

	Eventually Clever » The Code Book, by Simon Singh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Simon Singh has the potential to be one of the great popular science writers.
		Singh presents the history of cryptology as a dialectic between cryptologists and cryptanalysts.
		Singh notes that, had the Germans used the Enigma machine to its full potential and not imposed restrictions on the various mechanical settings as a matter of policy (forbidding the machine to encipher a letter as itself, for example), then it may have truly been unbreakable.
	www.chirographum.com /weblog?p=686 (652 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Code Book: How to Make It, Break It, Hack It, or Crack It - Simon Singh - Hardcover
		Singh chronicles the history of cryptography from Julius Caesar to the Germans' World War II Enigma machine to present-day methods of data encryption, expertly charting the evolution of codes and code breakers.
		Simon Singh breaks down cryptic messages for the teenage set in The Code Book: How to Make It, Break It, Hack It, Crack It, an adaptation of his bestselling adult title The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptology.
		Singh covers the history of code making and breaking in five long, extremely convoluted chapters, then winds up with a final chapter discussing, in almost impenetrable detail, issues of privacy in modern computer encryption.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?isbn=0385729138 (1021 words)

	Simon Singh on The Paula Gordon Show
		Singh is author of the best seller, Fermat's Enigma, and BBC producer of the award-winning documentary of the same name (aired on PBS's Nova.) He shares the secrets of cryptography over the millennia in The Code Book, also adapted for television.
		Singh explains the heart of their mathematical padlocks which are central to Internet security.
		Singh describes quantum cryptography, presenting the history of codes as a battle between code-makers and code-breakers with a series of examples.
	paulagordon.com /shows/singh (936 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Puzzl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Simon Singh's book is a lively, comprehensible explanation of Wiles's work and of the star-, trauma-, and wacko-studded history of Fermat's last theorem.
		Singh, a physicist who also directed a documentary film on this topic, relates the theorem's story over 2500 years, moving from ancient Greece, where it was first conceived, to its recent, triumphant...
		Simon Singh often succeeds at capturing the drama inherent in the subject, but often digresses too far from the main subject matter to hold the reader's attention throughout.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0613181050 (915 words)

	Simon Singh Rocks! \| Cosmic Variance
		When Katie sings “We are 12 billion light-years from the edge”, she is suggesting that this is the distance to the edge of the observable universe, which in turn implies that the universe is only 12 billion years old.
		Simon Singh’s response is exactly why scientists are considered nerds and eggheads who lack common sense.
		If Singh had taken the time to meet up with Batt, talk about the structure of the universe, the nature of space-time, over a drink or two perhaps, maybe he would have lit a spark in Batt’s brain and he’d've produced a scientifically accurate song, full of appropriate imagery.
	cosmicvariance.com /2005/10/15/simon-singh-rocks (4947 words)

	Universe Today - Audio: Interview with Simon Singh
		Simon Singh: I think I was in an airport lounge one day and started chatting with somebody about what do you do, and I started telling him that I was a science writer, or science communicator.
		Singh: When I look around the book stores, I see lots of books that talk about dark matter and dark energy and string theory and inflation.
		Singh: For example, when I was an undergraduate, say about 20 years ago and I was doing my cosmology and astronomy courses, the question was: how does the Universe end?
	universetoday.com /am/publish/audio_simon_singh_interview.html?3182005 (2248 words)

	University of Leeds \| For the media \| Press releases \| Enigma machine accompanies Simon Singh at Leeds in National ...
		Simon Singh explained: "One of the reasons I give talks on cryptography is to show the importance of mathematics.
		Enigma machine and Simon Singh will be joined by students from the University and local schools.
		Simon Singh studied physics at Imperial College, London before pursuing a PhD at Cambridge and CERN in Switzerland.
	www.leeds.ac.uk /media/current/singh.htm (437 words)

	Simon Singh
		Singh will speak on "Cracking the Cipher Challenge" from 3:00 to 4:00 pm in PHY 145 at the University of Waterloo.
		Simon Singh will be talking about how he constructed the Cipher Challenge and how the winners eventually cracked it.
		Simon shows how probability theory leads to truths that confound our intuition and he explains how it can help us to live, thrive and survive.
	www.mathnews.uwaterloo.ca /Issues/mn9104/ssingh.php (543 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: The Code Book: The Secret History of Codes and Code-breaking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Singh also traces the monumental improvements in code-making and -breaking brought on by World Wars I and II, the outcomes of which could have been very different without the brilliance of the Allied code breakers.
		Simon Singh investigates the challenges to personal privacy that technology and the ways we communicate today have upon everyday lives.
		Simon Singh is obviously passionate about his subject matter and this comes across very well.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1857028791 (1423 words)

	Big Bang by Simon Singh: Reviews
		Singh is a very gifted storyteller who never misses the chance to make his subject clearer or more entertaining.
		Singh tells his tale well, with chatty anecdotes leavening the astrophysics.
		Singh's unerring eye for picturesque anecdote and his capacity for simplifying complex scientific ideas is a winning formula.
	www.metacritic.com /books/authors/singhsimon/bigbang (510 words)

	kwc blog: Talk: Simon Singh, The Big Bang
		Simon Singh Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe www.simonsingh.net Singh gave a great talk on his book, The Big Bang.
		Singh then asked, "Who heard, 'It's my sweet Satan, The one whose little path would make me sad whose power is Satan.
		The QandA session demonstrated Singh's ability to be humorous and understandable even off the cuff (though I'm sure the questions were commonly asked).
	kwc.org /blog/archives/2005/2005-01-31.talk_simon_singh_the_big_bang.html (1412 words)

	IC Reporter, Simon Singh
		At a lecture theatre in the Blackett laboratory packed with listeners, Simon Singh dipped in and out of the history of code breaking and a world that has continued to help him keep a high profile in the bestseller lists.
		Simon was born in Somerset and went to the local Wellington Grammar School.
		In America, Simon became aware of how frequently newspapers carried cryptograms next to their crosswords; a relatively rare occurrence in the British press.
	www.ic.ac.uk /publications/reporterarchive/0083/feat02.htm (752 words)

	SS > NF reviews > Simon Singh
		Singh, one of the team who made the film, here writes up the story in more detail.
		He weaves together two stories: that of the theorem and the mathematical developments it has catalysed, and that of Wiles' developing passion for it.
		Singh makes clear is that, in order to do his >100 page proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, Wiles used much apparatus from modern number theory, and also produced much new deep mathematics himself.
	www-users.cs.york.ac.uk /~susan/bib/nf/s/singh.htm (710 words)

	Encyclopedia: Simon Singh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Code Book: The Evolution of Secrecy from Mary, Queen of Scots to Quantum Cryptography is a book written by Simon Singh and published in 1999 by Doubleday of New York; ISBN 0-385-49531-5 The Code Book covers a diverse set of historical topics including The Man in...
		Andrew John Wiles (born April 11, 1953) is a British mathematician living in the United States.
		A hieroglyph is one part of an ideographic writing system that is often found carved in stone.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Simon-Singh (1563 words)

	Alibris: Simon Singh
		Simon Singh co-produced an award-winning documentary film on Fermat's Last Theorem that aired on PBS's "Nova" series.
		From Julius Caesar and his Caesar Cipher to the code used by Mary Queen of Scots to the use of the Enigma machine during the Second World War, Simon Singh follows the evolution of secret writing.
		With a foreword written by critically acclaimed author Simon Singh (Fermat's Last Theorem), and essays by such major writers as Richard Dawkings, Susan Greenfield, and John Gribbin, it presents 250 of the most...
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Simon_Singh (606 words)

	Simon Singh -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Simon Singh (born 1964) is a (The people of Great Britain) British (Writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)) author with a doctorate in (The science of matter and energy and their interactions) physics, who has specialized in writing about mathematical and scientific topics in an accessible manner.
		He is the youngest of three brothers, his eldest brother being (Click link for more info and facts about Tom Singh) Tom Singh.
		He has also produced documentaries and works for television which accompany his books.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/si/simon_singh.htm (409 words)

	www.iop.org News - Simon Singh speaks on crisis in physics teaching (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Simon Singh speaks on crisis in physics teaching
		The Government’s attempts to recruit more science teachers in schools was criticised as inadequate by award-winning writer Simon Singh in a speech at the Institute of Physics’; awards dinner at the Savoy Hotel, London last night (Thursday 23 January).
		Singh highlighted the vicious circle of low numbers of physics teachers leading to less inspired teaching, resulting in fewer pupils taking the subject and, in turn, fewer physics teachers.
	www.iop.org /news/506 (158 words)

	GreatNewStory.com - The Big Bang - by Simon Singh by Robert Brinsmead (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This is an exciting read, beginning with amazing information on the astronomy and science of the ancient Greeks, some of whom were the first to put forth the theory that the earth travels around the sun.
		Simon Singh shows how more and more research and evidence supported the Big Bang.
		Some of the leading supporters of the Steady State were forced to change sides by the weight of evidence, and some of them cried when they had to give up the Steady State.
	greatnewstory.com /web/read/264.html (1125 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Fermat's Enigma : The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Singh begins with a discussion of Pythagoras and his famous theorem for calculating right triangles.
		Singh provides enough math to grab at the reader, some in the appendixes (more involved), and enough in the text to lay the ground work for Fermat.
		Singh once again gets bogged down, at this point in trying to bridge sophisticated concepts of modern math into a base of knowledge through which the reader can connect to Wiles achievement in 1994.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385493622?v=glance (2331 words)

	IT Conversations: Simon Singh - Tech Nation
		Moira Gunn speaks with Simon Singh about how humans have conceived the origins of the Universe throughout history -- from myth and misconceptions to today's Big Bang.
		Death is an essential element in the progress of science, since it takes care of conservative scientists of a previous generation reluctant to let go of an old, fallacious theory and embrace a new and accurate one.
		Fred Hoyle, who coined the term "big bang" as a way to ridicule the idea of a universe expanding from some tiny origin point, strongly believed that the cosmos was in a steady state.
	www.itconversations.com /shows/detail427.html (536 words)

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