Lol, I was also an impressionable youth who read popular math history books, and now I'm a number theorist! Which is to say, not only is this all very relatable, I have what I think is a pretty good guess as to who your speaker was :-)
What was the popular math/science book? I read all the popular math I could get my hands on when I was young, which was a fair amount as I had mathy parents and the public library, so there's a decent chance I've read it. (The books I really imprinted on were Mathematical People and More Mathematical People, which were collections of interviews with then-living mathematicians.)
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Date: 5/25/25 02:05 pm (UTC)What was the popular math/science book? I read all the popular math I could get my hands on when I was young, which was a fair amount as I had mathy parents and the public library, so there's a decent chance I've read it. (The books I really imprinted on were Mathematical People and More Mathematical People, which were collections of interviews with then-living mathematicians.)