Genius
Richard Gregory, 17 June 1982
The Mind’s Best Work
by D.N. Perkins.
Harvard, 314 pp., £12.95, November 1981,0 06 745762 2 Show More
by D.N. Perkins.
Harvard, 314 pp., £12.95, November 1981,
The Mathematical Experience
by Philip Davis and Reuben Hersh.
Harvester, 440 pp., £12.95, November 1981,0 7108 0364 8 Show More
by Philip Davis and Reuben Hersh.
Harvester, 440 pp., £12.95, November 1981,
“... autobiographical examples – with a good pinch (I almost said a Lot) of salt. The author, D. N. Perkins, a Co-Director of Project Zero at Harvard, includes puns and situation jokes as examples. Here he is following Arthur Koestler, but he does not altogether accept Koestler’s notion of Bisociation, expounded in The Act of Creation. This is the notion that ... ”
