Pierre de Fermat (1601–1665) is on every list of great mathematicians. However, he had a day job as a judge in Richelieu’s France and his great theorems were scribbled, with little or no proof, in the ...
An ideal Christmas present especially for the over-fifties. Horror strikes. Decayed limbs under the floorboards. The marvels of science. The devotion of our detectives. The evildoer exposed. A fair ...