Brian Rotman

Brian Rotman is a member of the faculty of comparative studies at Ohio State University. He is the author of Signifying Nothing (about zero) and of Ad Infinitum: The Ghost in Turing’s Machine.

In the LRB Archive:

• Monobeing: Why did the eternal one arrive so late? · 17 February 2005

  • God: An Itinerary by Régis Debray

• Pretty Good Privacy · 1 June 2000

  • The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography by Simon Singh
  • In Code: A Mathematical Journey by Sarah Flannery
  • Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption by Whitfield Diffie and Susan Landau

• Chef de Codage on codes · 15 July 1999

  • Between Silk and Cyanide: The Story of SOE’s Code War by Leo Marks

• Fortress Mathematica: John Nash and Paul Erdos · 17 September 1998

  • The Man who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdös and the Search for Mathematical Truth by Paul Hoffman
  • Proofs from the Book by Martin Aigner and Günter Ziegler
  • A Beautiful Mind: Genius and Schizophrenia in the Life of John Nash by Sylvia Nasar

• When to Stop Counting · 27 November 1997

  • Fermat’s Last Theorem: Unlocking the Secret of an Ancient Mathematical Problem by Amir Aczel

• What the Yarrow Stalks Foretell · 9 February 1995

  • The Classic of Changes: A New Translation of the I Ching as Interpreted by Wang Bi translated by Richard Lynn

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