![]() ![]() They had lost a personality of striking originality and great humanity, a grand eccentric who is served splendidly by Hoffman's account of his life, his work, and his one true passion: equations.Īs for next year's science book winner, a clear favourite must be Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters by Matt Ridley (Fourth Estate £18.99, pp344), a wonderful, eclectic 'whistlestop tour' (the author's words) through the human gene pool. Winner of this year's Rhone-Poulenc Science Book award, The Man Who Loved Only Numbers follows the story of Erdos (pronounced 'air-dish') from his days as a three-year-old prodigy who could multiply three-digit numbers in his head, to his death, in 1996, an event that was mourned by the world's mathematical community. ![]()
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