John Derbyshire On Math And Obsession

Kevin Holtsberry’s new literary blog Collected Miscellany features an interview with National Reviews’ John Derbyshire on his new book, Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics. It’s an interesting interview and the site is sure to become a favored stop among enlightened authors.

I’ll admit it, I was a math geek… A varsity football playing, cheerleader dating, calculus taking kind of math geek, back when it was still cool to be smart. If you liked A Beautiful Mind, this book should be right up your alley…