On your waiting-to-read shelf? 鈥淚 rarely read books not connected with my research or my own writing.鈥� This is not restrictive, he says, 鈥渟ince both my research and writing span broad areas, and the books pile grows faster than I can deplete it鈥�. He even wrote about The Da Vinci Code (Bantam, 2003). How was it? 鈥淢ichael Brown can tell a good story in a formulaic fashion,鈥� he says. 鈥淏ut I found his terse, breathless style annoying, and persevered because I had agreed to write about it.鈥� Devlin reckons Brown got about half of the maths wrong, 鈥渁lmost certainly because he used popular sources on the golden ratio that repeatedly do the same鈥�. What鈥檚 next? The New Brain by Richard Restak (Rodale, 2003). 鈥淢y colleagues tell me it鈥檚 a must-read.鈥�
Devlin鈥檚 latest book is The Millennium Problems (Granta).
