Lancelot Hogben: Scientific Humanist

Launcelot Hogben is best known as the author of Mathematics for the Million and as an accomplished academic. This biography has much of interest: anecdotes, experiences of life in South Africa at the dawn of apartheid, escape from Nazi occupied Norway through the USSR to the USA. His life was one of extraordinary achievement and he has written about it with customary zest and wit. ‘

Hogben had insatiable curiosity and could communicate what he found out in simple vivid language...he never abandoned his optimism.’ The Times Literary Supplement