Strange Brains And Genius
by Clifford A. Pickover
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Author: Clifford A. PickoverEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1998-03-21
ISBN: 0306457849
Number of pages: 332
Publisher: Basic Books
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Book Review: "A passport to insanity" - New Scientist
Summary: 5 Stars
NEW SCIENTIST review: "Clifford Pickover in 'Strange Brains and Genius' provides more than enough evidence to show that an astounding intellect can be a passport to insanity. Pickover has gone deep to uncover the sordid, and frequently tragicomic, lives of some of history's most notorious eggheads.... Nikola Tesla is merely the tip of the iceberg. Electrical engineer Oliver Heaviside replaced his conventional furniture with granite blocks and insulated his loft with vast swathes of unpublished, yet brilliant papers. His low self-esteem manifested itself in his idiosyncratic signature: WORM. Pickover has sympathetically exposed the mental weaknesses which may accompany many of these people's amazing intellectual strengths. We see that most of these people contributed more in an afternoon than us dunces achieve in a lifetime. For that, we should be thankful." - NEW SCIENTIST, May 1998
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