My publisher http://www.nap.edu/ tells me that Prime Obsession
is walking
off the shelves at both Barnes & Noble and Borders, and has now gone to a
second printing. This is terrific news. My deep, on-my-knees deep, thanks
to NR/NRO readers who took a chance on a book about a hard mathematical
problem. I hope it won’t disappoint. Speaking of my publisher, I commend
to you one of their other new books, Michael Bailey’s The Man Who Would Be
Queen, of which I have just done a review
for NRODT (which will appear in either the coming issue or the following
one). I am not altogether clear about the morality of reviewing books from
one’s own publisher, but NR said it was all right.