Jef Raskin, Creator of the Macintosh and author of The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems
Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics, by John Derbyshire
"There have been a lot of books and plays about eccentric mathematicians, but Bernhard Riemann blows the stereotype away. He had a quiet family life, was shy, and didn't go crazy like John Nash. It's nice to read about someone ordinary who was perhaps as bright a mathematician as has ever been. Derbyshire goes into great depth, and the math is quite difficult. If you're interested in it, there it is - the real equations. But if you're not, you can skip it. This is one of the best mathematical biographies I've read - and I've read a lot."
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