Two books by Simon Singh: The Code Book Big Bang He has an amazing ability to go really deep into what he's explaining. No hand waving over the details. And

Two books by Simon Singh: The Code Book Big Bang He has an amazing ability to go really deep into what he's explaining. No hand waving over the details. And yet, it's so very readable. Unfortunately that wasn't true with his other book - Fermat's Theorem - probably because the subject matter was too complex?