These are some of the books I read during last half a century or so, and some of the thoughts, questions, reactions and insights, emotions - and so forth -, evoked on reading them, either then or later sometime during the interim years and decades, or even thinking over now, that are summed up here while trying to record my impressions about what I read.
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Fermat's Last Theorem: by Simon Singh.
Anyone who needs being reminded that there are mountain peaks of people out there through history past and present, and shall in all likelihood always be, far more brilliant and dedicated and hard working and perhaps lucky - some far from lucky but possession of all the other aforenamed virtues to larger extents - then that person can do no better than to pick up this little volume and read it start to finish. If then it makes one feel very small indeed, so one finds it hard to live with oneself and call oneself a human belonging to the same species as these giants, one better make sure one is in close proximity with someone who reminds oneself why one deserves to live.