- The Man Who Loved Only Numbers by Paul Hoffman, Fourth Estate
- Full Moon by Michael Light, Jonathan Cape
- The Little Book of Science by John Gribbin, Penguin
- Time, Love, Memory by Jonathan Weiner, Faber & Faber
- Visions by Michio Kaku, Oxford University Press
- Fifth Miracle by Paul Davies, Penguin
- The Inmates are Running the Asylum by Alan Cooper, SAMS
- Impossibility by John Barrow, Random House
- Number Sense by Stanislas Dehaene, Penguin
- Cat鈥檚 Paws and Catapults by Steven Vogel, Penguin
Paul Hoffman has carried off the 拢10 000 Rh么ne-Poulenc Science
Book prize for his wonderful biography of Paul Erd贸s, the bagman of
mathematics.
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