by Simon Singh · Círculo de Lectores. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788422685609
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«Los códigos secretos» is Simon Singh's historical and scientific popular science essay, published by Círculo de Lectores in paperback (407 pages, in Spanish).
Simon Singh traces the history of cryptography from Julius Caesar to online shopping, explaining how messages are encrypted and decrypted. The book interweaves the stories of soldiers, spies and mystery writers with the evolution of cryptanalysis, and raises the privacy dilemmas of the interconnected society.
Original title: The Code Book (1999). The book was awarded the Corine Internationaler Buchpreis in 2001.
For fans of historical and scientific popular science, especially those interested in technology, security and secrets.
Simon Lehna Singh, is a British popular science author and theoretical and particle physicist. His written works include Fermat's Last Theorem, The Code Book, Big Bang, Trick or Treatment? Alternative Medicine on Trial and The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets. In 2012 Singh founded the Good Thinking Society, through which he created the website "Parallel" to help students learn mathematics.
