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Title: Simon Singh is the bestselling author and broadcaster who propelled mathematics and codes into the i


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Cracking the Cipher Challenge
Best-selling author (Fermats Last Theorem) and
TV broadcaster (The Science of Secrecy) Simon
Singh
Earlier Start Time 7.30 pm
Monday October 15th Talk 7.30 - 8.30 Drinks
7.00pm Free admission. All welcome.
Secret codes from Ancient Greece to Enigma and
the internet. How codes codebreaking won
wars, saved lives and cost Simon Singh 10,000.
  • Simon Singh is the best-selling author and
    broadcaster who propelled mathematics and codes
    into the international spotlight. He is the
    author of Fermat's Last Theorem and The Code
    Book.
  • This lecture is the story of the Cipher
    Challenge, a 10-stage codebreaking competition in
    The Code Book with a prize of 10,000, which was
    recently claimed. The talk will also be an
    introduction to cryptography and a history of the
    subject.

Junior School, British School in the Netherlands,
The Hague For details please contact Michael
Street (m.d.street_at_iee.org or 070 383 4809) or
see http//local.iee.org/benelux/ The Institution
of Electrical Engineers
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