I’ve got a mathematical problem. Birth of a Theorem is by one of the great geniuses of today, a cosmopolitan, liberal-minded man who helps his wife look after their children, likes big-hearted folk songs, welcomes diversity and wears the same jewellery as I do. But as a contribution to the genre of popular maths, the book stinks.
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Available from the Spectator Bookshop, £15.99 Tel: 08430 600033. Alexander Masters is the author of The Genius in My Basement, about his landlord in Cambridge, a maths obsessive.
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