西濛·辛格，齣生於英國南部薩默賽特郡，是印度旁遮普遺民後裔，曾在倫敦帝國學院學習物理，獲得劍橋大學粒子物理學博士學位。前BBC資深節目製作人，其製作的《地平綫：費馬大定理》獲得英國電影學院奬，同名科普書成為暢銷書。《碼書》是作者又一部心血之作，也是BBC係列專題《保密的科學》的底本，博得世界性聲譽。

譯者劉燕芬，颱灣師範大學英語係畢業。曾任國中英語教師，現旅居德國，從事中-德、中-英文之筆譯與口譯，並教授中文。

The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography From the best-selling author of Fermat's Last Theorem, The Code Book is a history of man's urge to uncover the secrets of codes, from Egyptian puzzles to modern day computer encryptions. As in Fermat's Last Theorem, Simon Singh brings life to an anstonishing story of puzzles, codes, languages and riddles that reveals man's continual pursuit to disguise and uncover, and to work out the secret languages of others. Codes have influenced events throughout history, both in the stories of those who make them and those who break them. The betrayal of Mary Queen of Scots and the cracking of the enigma code that helped the Allies in World War II are major episodes in a continuing history of cryptography. In addition to stories of intrigue and warfare, Simon Singh also investigates other codes, the unravelling of genes and the rediscovery of ancient languages and most tantalisingly, the Beale ciphers, an unbroken code that could hold the key to a $20 million treasure.