Table of Contents

1 Front Matter; 2 1 Prologue:"I Have Taken to Mathematics"; 3 2 The Slow Fire; 4 3 Moving the Line; 5 4 Searching for Similarity; 6 5 Networking; 7 6 The Pace of Life; 8 7 Seeing the Forest for the Trees; 9 8 The Cult of Santa Rosalia; 10 9 Humboldt's Gifts; 11 10 A Newton of the Grass Blade?; 12 11 Epilogue:"The Great Desideratum"; 13 Acknowledgements; 14 References; 15 Index

About the Author

John Whitfield