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VERY GOOD in VERY GOOD jacket. Very light spine end wear o/w a very nice copy, near fine condition in near fine dj (small tear at spine foot)---New York: Harmony Books 2010, First Edition 1st printing, hardcover in dust jacket, 306pp, 6 x 8 1/2.
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Like New in Fine jacket. Size: 5x1x8; Brief gift inscription by author. James Newman was a brilliant mathematician, the man who introduced the mathematical concept "googol" and "googolplex" (aka "google" and "googleplex") to the world, and a friend of Einstein's. He was also a notorious philanderer with an insatiable appetite for women and fast cars, a man who challenged intellectual and emotional limits, and a man of excess who oftentimes fell victim to his own anxiety. Jenniemae Harrington was an uneducated, illiterate African American maid from Alabama who began working for the Newman family in 1948-and who, despite her devout Christianity, played the illegal, underground lottery called "policy, " which she won with astonishing frequency. Though highly implausible, these two dissimilar individuals developed a deep and loyal friendship, largely because of their common love of numbers and their quick wits. Theirs was a friendship that endured even during an era when segregation still prevailed.