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His written works include Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem (about Fermat's Last Theorem), The Code Book (about cryptography and its history) and Big Bang (about Big Bang theory and the origins of the universe).
He has also produced documentaries and works for television which accompany his books.
His parents emigrated from the Punjab in India to Britain in 1950. He grew up in Wellington, Somerset, and then went on to Imperial College London, where he studied Physics, before completing a PhD in particle physics at Cambridge University and at CERN, Geneva. In 1990 he joined the BBC's Science Department, where he was a producer and director in programmes such as Tommorrow's World and Horizon. In 1996, he directed Fermat's Last Theorem, a BAFTA award-winning documentary about the world's most notorious mathematical problem. The documentary was also aired in America as part of the NOVA series. The Proof, as it was re-titled, was nominated for an Emmy. The story if this notorious mathematical problem was also the subject of his first book, Fermat's Last Theorem. This was the first book about mathematics to become a No 1 bestseller in the UK. In 1997, he began working on his second book, the Code Book, a history of codes and codebreaking. As well as explaining the science of codes and describing the impact of cryptography on historyHistory is often used as a generic term for information about the past, such as in "geologic history of the Earth". When used as the name of a field of study, history refers to the study and interpretation of the record of human societies. The term histor, the book also that cryptography is more important today than ever before. The Code Book has resulted in a return to television for him. He presented The Science of Secrecy, a five part series for Channel 4. The stories in the series range from the cipher that sealed the fate of Mary Queen of Scots to the coded Zimmermann Telegraph that changed to course of the First World War. Other programmes discuss how two great 19th century geniuses raced to decipher Egyptian heiroglyphs and how modern encryption can guarantee privacy on the InternetThis article is about the Internet the extensive, worldwide computer network available to the public. An internet is a more general term for a set of interconnected computer networks that are connected by internetworking''. WWW information network structu. Currently, he is involved more in television and radio programmes and has just published his third book, The Big Bang, a history of cosmology.