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The author came across as a bit of a prick which he is judging from comments he has made in recent newspaper articles including the following:
''Leaving aside the intended malice, I actually think "White Supremacist" is not bad semantically. White supremacy, in the sense of a society in which key decisions are made by white Europeans, is one of the better arrangements History has come up with. There have of course been some blots on the record, but I don't see how it can be denied that net-net, w ...more
''Leaving aside the intended malice, I actually think "White Supremacist" is not bad semantically. White supremacy, in the sense of a society in which key decisions are made by white Europeans, is one of the better arrangements History has come up with. There have of course been some blots on the record, but I don't see how it can be denied that net-net, w ...more
Derbyshire delivered as promised, and explained the prime number theorem and the Riemann hypothesis with very little calculus, so the three star rating probably isn't fair, because this was a well written, entertaining book. But it's also a very tedious book that requires the readers full attention. This isn't a good one to curl up with when you're exhausted at the end of the day
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