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1. The End of Time by Julian Barbour, Phoenix
2. The Science of Discworld by Terry Pratchett, Edbury Press
3. In Code by Sarah Flannery, Profile
4. Trilobite! by Richard Fortey, HarperCollins
5. The Genius of Science by Abraham Pais, Oxford University Press
6. Just Six Numbers by Martin Rees, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
7. Lucifer’s Legacy by Frank Close, Oxford University Press
8. The Cogwheel Brain by Doron Swade, Little, Brown
9. The Maths Gene by Keith Devlin, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
10. Mendeleyev’s Dream by Paul Strathern, Hamish Hamilton

Sarah Flannery’s placement for student work experience gave her employers an
unexpected surprise: a new encryption algorithm. Moral: don’t waste your
student-workers on…