I own a number of talking books as I do a lot of cycling and I'm a lazy shite. I have also found that somethimes having a book read to you is much more fun that reading it yourself. However, this baby was so good that I bought a copy in paperback less than a month later and devoured it a second time. It's a fantastic read and a true story. It tells of one man's (Andrew Wiles) dream of solving a mathematical problem that had stumped mathematicians for hundereds of years. In doing so, we are treated to a popular (but never patronising) guided tour around the incredible science of mathematics. Very few books have shown just how big and how small great minds can be. The tales of pure genius and raw stupidity along with the immense depth of feeling that the mathematical community can display when in pursuit of a given goal are staggering.
I'm told that even today, geometry is still outlawed in some parts of the world. Book burning anybody?