![]() "The general reader might be occasionally slowed by some of Seldom and other characters' weightier statements, but this will surely appeal to readers with a yen for science and mathematics." The Oxford Murders is comfortably short enough to be read in a single evening, and the plot rattles along at an efficient pace (.) The prose is straightforward but has some nice touches" - Thomas Jones, London Review of Books."Read it, and be temporarily convinced that applied mathematics is suddenly within your grasp." - Emma Hagestadt, The Independent. ![]() ![]() It would be all too easy to labour the connections between maths and murder, but there is a lightness of touch in the way the themes are laid out in the book that make it a very easy read." - Marcus du Sautoy, The Guardian The Oxford Murders is not the first thriller to combine the two, but it is one of the first to do it successfully.(.) What is more surprising is how sensitively he uses the ideas. "The mix of mathematics and murder mystery makes for a powerful cocktail.Not quite a consensus, but most enjoyed it - some thoroughly ![]()
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