Simon Singh

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Simon Singh is a British author who specialises in writing mathematical and scientific topics in an accessible manner. His notable written works include Fermat's Last Theorem, Big Bang, and Trick or Treatment? Alternative Medicine on Trial.

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• Simon Singh

  Fermat’s Last Stand

• Ken Ribet

  Quotients of group rings arising from two-dimensional representations

• Hendrik W. Lenstra, Jr.

  Continued fractions and linear recurrences

• Jeffrey O. Shallit

  New bounds on the length of finite Pierce and Engel series

• Paul Erdős

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• Simon Singh

  Measurement of the gluon structure function from direct photon data at the CERN anti-p p collider.

• Luigi Di Lella

  Determination of the angular and energy dependence of hard constituent scattering from pi0 pair events at the CERN Intersecting Storage Rings

• Leon Max Lederman

  The SSC: A Machine for the Nineties

• Sheldon Lee Glashow

  Mass formulas and mass inequalities for reducible unitary multiplets

• Daniel J. Kleitman

  On coloring graphs to maximize the proportion of multicolored k-edges

• Paul Erdős

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• Simon Singh

  The Most Annoying Pop Songs… We Hate to Love

• Joel Stein

  Sundance Skippy

• Kevin Bacon

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• Simon Singh

  "Nine Million Bicycles" alternate lyrics¹

• Katie Melua

  Call Off the Search

• Mike Batt

  The Pig Must Die

• Roger Daltrey

  Love’s Dream

• Rick Wakeman

Credits

Discovery: January First-of-May

Footnotes

1. Simon Singh criticised the pop hit Nine Million Bicycles for the lyric "We are 12 billion light-years from the edge. That’s a guess — no-one can ever say it’s true." When he met musician Katie Melua on BBC Radio 4, she recorded a version with Singh’s alternate lyrics: "We are 13.7 billion light-years from the edge of the observable universe; that’s a good estimate with well-defined error bars/and with the available information, I predict that I will always be with you." ↩