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The Man Who Loved Only Numbers

I enjoyed reading Mark's infinite hotel posting today. I've recently finished reading "The Man Who Loved Only Numbers", a biography (actually more of an oral history) of the mathematician Paul Erdös. Erdös is famous in mathematical circles for both his genius and his productivity. So much so that a low Erdös Number is a badge … Continue reading The Man Who Loved Only Numbers →

Leigh Dodds Books 3 Comments December 5, 2003 1 Minute

Canterbury Tales

The BBC have just started a series of modern adaptations of Chaucers Canterbury Tales. I've just finished watching the first of these, The Millers Tale, which I thoroughly enjoyed. Funny and bawdy; what more can you ask? If, like me, you've never read the original poems then you may be interested to know that the … Continue reading Canterbury Tales →

Leigh Dodds Books September 11, 2003May 9, 2013 1 Minute

Book Of Pages

A few weeks ago the Dodds family joined Bath library (or re-joined in my case). Ethan loves reading so it was an opportunity to introduce him to the delights of the public library as well as an opportunity for Debs and I to save some money; if we enter Waterstones we buy books, end of … Continue reading Book Of Pages →

Leigh Dodds Books September 3, 2003 2 Minutes

Reading To Some Purpose

...and that purpose is "Keep Leigh Away From The Computer". Getting a bit fed up with programming and web surfing recently, so I decided it was time to pick up my reading habit once more. Here's where my paper-surfing has been taking me. In case you're interested. Have recently finished: Gibson's Pattern Recognition: excellent as … Continue reading Reading To Some Purpose →

Leigh Dodds Books 2 Comments May 27, 2003 2 Minutes

(Not) Creating Apps with Mozilla

Having recently picked up a copy of Creating Applications with Mozilla on one of my occasional hit-and-run attacks on Amazon, I've been tinkering a bit with XUL to see how easy it is to build applications. This is part of some ongoing tinkering I've been doing to look at ways to quickly prototype user interfaces. … Continue reading (Not) Creating Apps with Mozilla →

Leigh Dodds Books 2 Comments March 11, 2003May 9, 2013 3 Minutes

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