title: In the Dark on the Sunny Side: A Memoir of an Out-of-Sight Mathematician (Spectrum)
author: Larry Baggett
description: This book tells the story of a young American boy blinding himself by accident and ending up an internationally well-known expert on harmonic analysis and wavelet theory. Born in 1939 and becoming blind in 1944, the author experiences being one of the very first blind students main-streamed through the public school system, college, and university. The story is by and large a happy one and we are given many examples of relatives, friends, teachers, and strangers helping the blind boy, the blind adolescent or the blind man with all these practical things that are so self-evident to us seeing persons that we just take them for granted: how to find your way from one classroom to another in a school full of children running around, how to match the colors of your clothes, how to order from a menu, ow to find an empty seat in a seminar room, or how to travel to a conference. All these important details of life are commented on in a positive spirit. The author lives in a friendly world, even if that world is arranged for seeing people by seeing people.
zlib_text: **INSIDE OUT**
  
   **Rudy Rucker**
  
  [07 feb 2002—scanned, proofed and released for #bookz]
  
  _Rudy Rucker is a mathematician who writes books of popular science and
  science fiction. His_ _SF swings widely and freely into the surreal and
  metaphysical upon occasion. In this story, his_ _future is a fantasy land and
  his science is transformed by metaphor. In direct rebellion against the_
  _tradition of fantasy world-building, Rucker doesn't just paint the world of
  the story with a broad_ _brush; he paints it with a broom. He simultaneously
  denies the necessity of rationalizing the world_ _of the story while invoking
  the standard scientific technique of oversimplifying for the sake of_
  _mathematical argument (in this case involving topology—an interesting
  contrast to R. A Lafferty's_ _story (pp.375-88). Fast and loose, wild-and-
  crazy fantastic, that's Rudy Rucker._
  
  You might think of Killeville as a town where every building is a Pizza Hut.
  Street after street of Pizza Huts, each with the sa