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Title: Best of breed!
Review: I read this just before reading Dava Sobel's "Longitude", and the difference could not be more startling. Both are enjoyable enough reads (and both were read on transatlantic flights!), but Singh's book supplies the technical detail needed to make it a really worthwhile exercise. I have an engineering degree (and therefore little "pure maths"), but Singh's layman's approach works well. Nice to see a populist book which doesn't shirk its responsibility to detail.
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