In The Code Book: The Evolution of Secrecy from Mary, Queen of Scots, to Quantum Cryptography, due out soon from Doubleday, British author SimonSingh traces the evolution of the centuries-old battle between code writers and code breakers.
For a comprehensive yet eminently comprehensible account of how cosmologists pieced together the history of the universe, turn to the latest book by SimonSingh, a British science writer best known for his bestselling account of the solution of Fermat's last theorem.