Nearly in Nature
The book Christof Teuscher edited, including my chapter on Turing and Fibonacci phyllotaxis, got reviewed in Nature this week (access restricted I guess).
It's a positive review, but in truth a pretty perfunctory one. It is ungrateful of me, I know, to point out that while it's nice to be told 'it is difficult to find the superlatives to describe the wonderful job the contributors have done', it would have been nicer for the commissioned journalist to actually do his generally accepted job of finding the correct words.
But I am minded to be ungrateful given that the reviewer's main complaint of the book is that it only has one chapter (mine) on mathematical biology, yet he doesn't grace that chapter with any comment. Humph.
(Casti is wrong in fact, I think, to say that Turing 'helped build' the Manchester computer, but who cares).
There is also a review in New Scientist. which also reveals more of the reviewer than the book, but in this case a little more positively.
