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GENIUS: RICHARD FEYNMAN AND MODERN PHYSICS by James Gleick, Little, Brown, 520pp
PI IN THE SKY: Counting, Thinking, and Being by John D. Barrow, Clarendon Press Oxford, 317pp
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