Simon - The Genius In My Basement

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From the author of ' Stuart: A Life Backwards'; a warm & witty portrait of a harmless, eccentric, bona fide genius. Alexander Master's landlord, Simon, lives in the basement of their Cambridge house. Between teetering towers of outdated maps & slagheaps of plastic bags, Simon eats endless meals of tinned kippers & plans trips on the Cambridge public transport system. But Simon was one of the greatest mathematical prodigies of the twentieth century. He spends his time between train journeys working on a theoretical puzzle so complex & critical to our understanding of the universe that it is known as the Monster. Poignant & comical, ' Simon: The Genius in my Basement' is about the frailty of brilliance & how genius matters very little in the search for happiness.