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Books

A craving for colour Philip Hensher THE UNKNOWN MATISSE by Hilary Spurling Hamish Hamilton, £25, pp. 480 h e elevation of Matisse to one of the two or three top positions in......

The Bob Hope Of Mathematics

Anthony Gottlieb A nong the many ancient legends about Pythagoras is the story that he was sometimes in two places at once. Paul Erdos, a Hungarian mathematician who died in......