Title: true stories?
Product review: Read at your own risk. The stories in this book don't have the ring of truth. For example in the "Twins" chapter, on page 203, Sacks states he has a book that lists prime numbers up to 10 digits. As has been pointed out elsewhere, such a book, if it contained all primes up to 10 digits, would contain over 400 million numbers. Sacks later stated he no longer had the book, and it's possible it only went up to 8 digits (the case study was from 1966). I was so fascinated by the chapter that I looked for more info online about the twins, but hardly anything was found. This is disappointing, considering their stated talent was identifying prime numbers up to 20 digits long.
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