Simon Singh
Popular science author
Simon Singh is a British author who writes about mathematics and science for general readers. He wrote The Code Book, a history of cryptography.
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British Born 1964 in Wellington, United Kingdom
About Simon Singh
Simon Singh was born in 1964 and studied for a PhD at Cambridge. He worked at the BBC from 1991 to 1997, where he produced Tomorrow's World. His books include Fermat's Last Theorem, Big Bang and Trick or Treatment? Alternative Medicine on Trial. The Code Book, written in 1999, looks at the history of cryptography and became an international bestseller. A Channel 4 series, The Science of Secrecy, drew on the book. In 2012 he founded the Good Thinking Society, which he used to create Parallel, a website that helps students learn mathematics. He also co-founded the Undergraduate Ambassadors Scheme and serves as a trustee at the National Museum of Science and Industry.