Graham Farmelo’s It Must Be Beautiful: Great equations of modern science is just out in paperback (Granta). So he’s set to work on a new book, about the life and legacy of theoretical physicist Paul Dirac. This is dictating most of his reading.
For the art of writing biography, he’s deep into Michael Holroyd’s one-volume edition of Bernard Shaw (Vintage, 1998) – “the Full Monty four-volume version can wait for now,” he says.
He is enjoying Right Hand, Left Hand by Chris McManus (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2002). As he points out, “Dirac was one of the very first to see…
