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Genre/Form: | Popular works |
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Named Person: | Marcus Du Sautoy; Marcus Du Sautoy |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Marcus Du Sautoy |
OCLC Number: | 1330345016 |
Notes: | Originally published: London: Fourth Estate, 2008. |
Description: | 1 online resource (pages cm) |
Responsibility: | Marcus du Sautoy. |
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Publisher Synopsis
'If you don't experience a thrill of foreboding as du Sautoy ventures into this twilit territory, nothing in maths will be for you. Even if the thought of sitting down to a quintic equation makes you want to cry, it would still be hard to resist Moonshine's cocktail of anecdote, swashbuckling potted history and haphazard self-revelation. The moments of autobiographical intimacy bring the book to life...a joy.' Daily Telegraph 'Mesmerising...articulate, fluent, funny and personable, [du Sautoy] is also absolutely passionate about mathematics, with a burning desire to make the rest of us as excited as he is about its problems, its patterns and its beauty. He captures for us with brilliant vividness the excitement of the pursuit of a solution to a difficult problem.' Lisa Jardine, Sunday Times 'A fascinating and absorbing read.' Financial Times 'A marvellous account...these exasperating people with unkempt beards, untidy clothes, impossible manners and extraordinary obsessions, become, in this narrative, ultimately enviable.' Guardian Read more...

