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osric	Aug 1 2009, 08:44 AM
Advanced Member Posts: 51 Group: Members Member #3,254 Joined: March 15, 2009	Quote: I've not read Singh. All of the reviews I've seen, except one, were glowing. But that one raises serious questions: http://www.ams.org/notices/200003/rev-reeds.pdf I hope that this comment will not discourage anyone from reading Simon Singh's acclaimed book, whether or not they are interested at this point in time in ciphers. It was this book that catalyzed my interest in Cryptology, and so opened horizons to a new and fascinating world. It is well worth reading, warts and all, and like Donald I strongly recommend it. The criticisms mentioned from a mathematician's journal are no doubt valid (I've not checked them) but are totally irrelevant to anyone but mathematical geeks -- and certainly are irrelevant to normal readers. The great service of Simon Singh's book is to explain things in ordinary language that people can understand, in a way that is highly readable. If along the way he slips up on odd occasions in talking about the square root of minus one, then the cognoscienti may be outraged but the rest of us will neither notice nor appreciate that there is a problem.


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