Simon Singh
Description
Simon Singh is a scientist, mathematician and the best-selling author of Fermat's Last Theorem. He is hugely successful at popularising mathematics and science through books, television programmes and lectures.For The Teaching Challenge, he will attempt to explain to a year 9 class the workings of the legendary WW2 German coding machine Enigma. Rather that an abstract subject, mathematics is vividly shown to be a matter of life and death.
Runtime
19 min
Series
Subjects
Geography
Genre
Date of Publication
2006
Database
Alexander Street
Direct Link
https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?EDIV;1742579
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