* Key title The best selling author of FERMAT'S LAST THEOREM and THE CODE BOOK tells the story of the brilliant minds that deciphered the mysteries of the Big Bang. * Publication of Big Bang marks the much anticipated new book from the leading British popular science writer of our generation. * Both Fermat's Last Theorem and The Code Book were Sunday Times bestsellers in both editions with almost half a million copies in print in the UK alone. * Simon is a tireless promoter and will conduct an ongoing nationwide author tour through the autumn * The Big Bang is possibly the most well known subject in science -- this combined with Simon's massive appeal will give us one of the biggest non-fiction titles of the season.
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. In 1997, he published Fermat's Last Theorem, which was a no 1 best-seller in Britain and translated into 22 languages. In 1999, he published The Code Book which was also an international bestseller and was the basis for the Channel 4 series The Science of Secrecy.
Praise for Fermat's Last Theorem: To read [Fermat's Last Theorem] is to realise that there is a world of beauty and intellectural challenge that is denied to 99.9 per cent of us who are not high-level mathematicians.' The Times 'This is probably the best popular account of a scientific topic I have ever read.' Irish Times 'Reads like the chronicle of an obsessive love affair. It has the classic ingredients that Hollywood would recognise.' Daily Mail Praise for The Code Book: Singh's account combines readability with a more meaty level of technical analysis than any other I have seen. His powers of explanation are as dazzling as ever.' Guardian 'A great book.' Observer 'Singh as the knack of making the frightening world of number theory seem like child's play, there is more than enough here to interest the mathematically squeamish.' Daily Telegraph '[Singh tells] these stories with infectious relish...He alternates between explanation of how ciphers are constructed and be cracked, and tales of the skulduggery surrounding them.' Sunday Times
Praise for Fermat's Last Theorem: To read [Fermat's Last Theorem] is to realise that there is a world of beauty and intellectural challenge that is denied to 99.9 per cent of us who are not high-level mathematicians.' The Times 'This is probably the best popular account of a scientific topic I have ever read.' Irish Times 'Reads like the chronicle of an obsessive love affair. It has the classic ingredients that Hollywood would recognise.' Daily Mail Praise for The Code Book: Singh's account combines readability with a more meaty level of technical analysis than any other I have seen. His powers of explanation are as dazzling as ever.' Guardian 'A great book.' Observer 'Singh as the knack of making the frightening world of number theory seem like child's play, there is more than enough here to interest the mathematically squeamish.' Daily Telegraph '[Singh tells] these stories with infectious relish...He alternates between explanation of how ciphers are constructed and be cracked, and tales of the skulduggery surrounding them.' Sunday Times
Writing in a manner that almost any reader will understand and enjoy, best-selling author Singh (Fermat's Enigma) here presents a brief history of the origins of the universe, taking on the most important scientific theory ever postulated. He begins with a historical overview of how scientific thought changed from mythology to cosmology, then moves to the debate between the steady state model of an eternal universe and the Big Bang theory, which saw the universe as beginning at a unique moment that was followed by rapid expansion. Rejected by Einstein, the Big Bang theory lost favor with the scientific community, but over time, astronomers used increasingly powerful telescopes to provide the proof needed to sway scientific minds. Singh shows that this debate was fought long and hard, moving into the public sector as a result of several popular books and radios broadcasts. While the Big Bang model is now widely accepted as the way in which the universe was created, the question remains, What came before the Big Bang? This readable book provides an accessible overview of this complex scientific theory. Recommended for all college collections and larger public libraries. [See Prepub Alert, LJ 9/15/04.]-Gloria Maxwell, Penn Valley Community Coll., Kansas City, MO Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
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