The Genius in My Basement

Samenvatting: The Genius in My Basement (zoals op de achterkaft)

Dr. Simon Phillips Norton lives beneath Alexander's flat in Cambridge. One of the greatest mathematical prodigies of the 20th Century, today he stomps about his rooms in semi-darkness eating tinned kippers stirred into packets of Bombay mix, fulminating against automobiles and attacking a theoretical conundrum so vast and intricate that he calls it 'The Monster.' He says it is the Voice of God. The Monster looks like a Sudoku table. A Sudoku table has nine columns of numbers.The Monster has 808017424794512875886459904961710757005754368000000000.
Simon's toilet has fallen through the floor. Supermarket bags swollen with bus timetables pile like stalagmites on his tables and chairs. Ruts in the floor debris mark his route from bed to kitchen, kitchen to toilet, toilet back to bed. He is unemployed and unemployable.
In THE GENIUS IN MY BASEMENT, Alexander Masters offers a tender, humorous, intimate portrait of a supposedly 'collapsed' genius and a happy man.