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Posted By Peter Bentley
I was asked to write the Book of Numbers by Cassell Illustrated, who wanted to publish something a little more serious while still making it pretty to look at and fun to read. I hope you'll agree they did a lovely job... but unfortunately a few errors in formatting and editing did creep in. Many of the readers who send me emails do delight in pointing out the errors, but I have found most of them now (I hope!). You can download a printable list of corrections here:

http://www.peterjbentley.com/amendments.pdf

One advantage is that they provide a good test for you, my reader: if you can find the mistakes yourself it shows you're reading and understanding all the tricky parts in the boxes extremely well!


 
Posted By Peter Bentley
One advantage of writing popular science is that I get asked to do some fun things. On 8 June 2007 I was one of the speakers in the "You, Robot?" debate in Cheltenham Town Hall, at the Cheltenham Science Festival (with Lola Cañamero and chaired by Mark Miodownik). The title was me tipping my hat to Asimov, of course. In addition to sharing a VIP room with all kinds of famous "TV scientists" which was fun, UCL decided they would stick my image on the homepage for the entire university for a few weeks. Yikes!