#simon singh

[cinematic-literature]

Sherlock S01E02 (The Blind Banker)

Book title

Snow Blind (2006) by P. J. Tracy

Fermat's Last Theorem (1998) by Simon Singh

London A-Z (1984)

The Lost Symbol (2009) by Dan Brown

Blood’s a Rover (2009) by James Ellroy

Coutts & Co 1692-1992: The Portrait of a Private Bank (1992) by Edna Healey

The Secrets of Codes: Understanding the World of Hidden Messages (2009) by Paul Lunde

Porcelain Through the Ages (1963) by George Savage

Kickboxing Geishas: How Modern Japanese Women Are Changing Their Nation (2007) by Veronica Chambers

A book about Le Corbusier

When Markets Collide (2008) by Mohamed El-Erian

Miller’s Antiques (1996) by Judith Miller

[holisticfansstuff]

Do you guys want to know my favourite fact ?

This is my favourite fact.

They clearly pursued books with a sort of single-minded fervour that had no room for silly things like scruples

[notecore]

Day 7: Current book

I’m really loving this book at the moment!

It’s a lovely mixture of -2 of my favourite things- history and maths. It gives a great background to the history of ciphers as well as teaching you how to decipher along the way.

I’d highly recommend!

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🎶Song of the day:

6/10- Dodie 🎶

[risualto]

According to Simon Singh’s Big Bang, it’s reasonable to assume based on the idea of nucleosynthesis and the fact that all heavy elements (i.e. not hydrogen or helium) come from the cores of dying stars that people could either think of themselves as being composed of stardust (if you’re a romantic) or nuclear waste (if you’re a cynic).

I feel like this is going to be my new way of asking “glass half-empty or half-full?”

[vintageanchorbooks]

Simon Singh’s classic FERMAT’S ENIGMA is available now for the first time as an ebook.

“Pythagoras's theorem has been scorched into millions if not billions of human brains. It is the fundamental theorem that every innocent schoolchild is forced to learn. But despite the fact that it can be understood by a ten-year-old, Pythagoras's creation was the inspiration for a problem that had thwarted the greatest mathematical minds of history.”

http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/168001/fermats-enigma-by-simon-singh-author-of-the-code-book-foreword-by-john-lynch/#

[aizawashuichi]

I was uploading more files to my kindle and came across The Philosophical Breakfast Club that I got after reading (and never finishing but i will deal with it) a book about cryptography and just remembered Charles Babbage. That man was a menace to society.

[alwayswiselight]

A couple of books that I've had that I need to read. As I've stated in a previous post, I'm moving away from religion based on blind faith altogether in favor of a philosophy based on reason in which God is nature. As per Spinoza, God is an eternal substance with infinite qualities which encompasses the earth, living beings, and the cosmos.

[thomdoesthings]

Just finished The Code Book, by Simon Singh

This was fun. While it's a bit out of date now, this was a really entertaining read, and I definitely feel like I've come away having learned something. The last chapter all about quantum computing gave me a headache, but overall this was great and surprisingly easy to digest.