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Code Book, The: The Secret History of Codes and Code-breaking
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- Print length416 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherFourth Estate
- Publication dateJanuary 1, 1999
- Dimensions6.26 x 1.42 x 9.45 inches
- ISBN-101857028791
- ISBN-13978-1857028799
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Product details
- Publisher : Fourth Estate
- Publication date : January 1, 1999
- Edition : First Edition
- Language : English
- Print length : 416 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1857028791
- ISBN-13 : 978-1857028799
- Item Weight : 1.65 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.26 x 1.42 x 9.45 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #836,268 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #141 in Web Encryption
- #49,672 in Science & Math (Books)
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About the author

Simon Singh is a science journalist and TV producer. Having completed his PhD at Cambridge he worked from 1991 to 1997 at the BBC producing Tomorrow's World and co-directing the BAFTA award-winning documentary Fermat's Last Theorem for the Horizon series. He is the author of Fermat's Last Theorem, which was a no 1 bestseller in Britain and translated into 22 languages. In 1999, he wrote The Code Book which was also an international bestseller and the basis for the Channel 4 series The Science of Secrecy.










