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Big Bang - The Origin of the Universe by Simon Singh
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: P. S. Ser.
We've all heard of the Big Bang, and yet few of us truly know what it is.Renowned for making difficult ideas much less difficult than they might first appear, Simon Singh is our perfect guide to explaining why cosmologists believe that the Big Bang is an accurate description of the origin and evolution ...Show more
Fermat's Last Theorem by Simon Singh
Category: Science
'I have a truly marvellous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.' It was with these words, written in the 1630s, that Pierre de Fermat intrigued and infuriated the mathematics community. For over 350 years, proving Fermat's Last Theorem was the most notorious unso ...Show more
Fermat's Last Theorem by Simon Singh
Category: Science | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generations to come. 'Maths is one of the purest forms of thought, and to outsiders mathematicians may seem almo ...Show more
The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets by Simon Singh
Category: Humour
Everyone knows that The Simpsons is probably the most successful show in television history. What you might not know is that it contains enough sophisticated mathematics to form a university course, and then some. In the first ever episode, baby Maggie is messing around with some building blocks, which ...Show more
Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets by Simon Singh
Category: Science
Some have seen philosophy embedded in episodes of The Simpsons; others have detected elements of psychology and religion. Simon Singh, bestselling author of Fermat's Last Theorem, The Code Book and The Big Bang, instead makes the compelling case that what The Simpsons' writers are most passionate about ...Show more
The Code Book - The Secret History of Codes and Code-breaking by Simon Singh
Category: Science
From the best-selling author of Fermat's Last Theorem, The Code Book is a history of man's urge to uncover the secrets of codes, from Egyptian puzzles to modern day computer encryptions. As in Fermat's Last Theorem, Simon Singh brings life to an anstonishing story of puzzles, codes, languages and riddle ...Show more
The Code BookThe Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography by Simon Singh
Category: Non-Fiction
In his first book since the bestselling Fermat's Enigma, Simon Singh offers the first sweeping history of encryption, tracing its evolution and revealing the dramatic effects codes have had on wars, nations, and individual lives. From Mary, Queen of Scots, trapped by her own code, to the Navajo Code Tal ...Show more
The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets by Simon Singh
Category: Non-Fiction
You may have watched hundreds of episodes of "The Simpsons" (and its sister show "Futurama") without ever realizing that cleverly embedded in many plots are subtle references to mathematics, ranging from well-known equations to cutting-edge theorems and conjectures. That they exist, Simon Singh reveals, ...Show more
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