![]() I presented The Science of Secrecy, a 5-part series for Channel 4. The Code Book has resulted in a return to television for me. After all, we live in the Information Age, and one of the best ways to protect information is to encrypt it. As well as explaining the science of codes and describing the impact of codebreaking on history, the book also shows that cryptography is more important today than ever before. In 1997 I began working on my second book, The Code Book, a history of codes and codebreaking. ![]() In America the book was called “Fermat’s Enigma”. This was the first book about mathematics to become a No.1 bestseller in the UK. The story of this notorious mathematical problem was also the subject of my first book, imaginatively entitled Fermat’s Last Theorem. The Proof, as it was re-titled, was nominated for an Emmy. The documentary was also aired in America as part of the NOVA series. ![]() In 1996 I directed Fermat’s Last Theorem, a BAFTA award winning documentary about the world’s most notorious mathematical problem. In 1990 I joined the BBC’s Science Department, where I was a producer and director in programmes such as Tomorrow’s World and Horizon. I grew up in Wellington, Somerset, and then went to Imperial College London, where I studied physics, before completing a PhD in particle physics at Cambridge University and at CERN, Geneva. My parents emigrated from the Punjab in India to Britain in 1950. ![]()
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