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[An untitled review in the "Play" section of Wired.
Though short, this is a major review for me. Jef Raskin is an über-geek.
He created the Macintosh, and is the author of The Humane Interface:
New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems.] By
Jef Raskin
There have been a lot of
books and plays about eccentric mathematicians, but Bernhard Riemann blows
the stereotype away. He had a quiet family life, was shy, and didn't
go crazy like John Nash. It's nice to read about someone ordinary who
was perhaps as bright a mathematician as has ever been. Derbyshire
goes into great depth, and the math is quite difficult. If you're
interested in it, there it is –the real equations.
But if you're not, you can skip it. This is one of the best
mathematical biographies I've read – and I've read a lot. |