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Alexander Masters tripped over his first subject on a Cambridge pavement, and the result was the multi- awardwinning bestseller Stuart: A Life Backwards.
The second, he`s found under his floorboards.
One of the greatest mathematical prodigies of the twentieth century stomps around the basement in semi-darkness, dodging between stalagmites of bus timetables and engorged plastic bags. He eats tinned kippers stirred into packets of Bombay Mix. Simon is exploring a theoretical puzzle so complex and critical to our
understanding of the universe, that it is known as the Monster. It looks like a sudoku table “ except a sudoku table has nine columns of numbers.
The Monster has 808017424794512875886459904961710757005754368000000000.
But Simon`s also up to something else. What`s inside the decaying sports bag he never lets out of his clutches? Why does he hurtle out of the house in the middle of the night? And “ Good God! “ what is that noxious smell that creeps up the stairwell? The Genius in my Basement is the grumpy, poignant, comical story “ more intimate than either the author or his subject intended “ about the frailty of brilliance, Britain`s most uncooperative egghead, and a happy man. ISBN 9780007243396
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Pages : 399
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