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The Book Show #957

Albany, NY – Theoretical physicist and novelist are not professions usually thought of together, but Janna Levin combines them with a hip, rock-and-roll aplomb. In this interview with host Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina, Levin talks about her latest book "A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines." The book follows the lives of two real-life mathematicians, Kurt Godel and Alan Turing, brilliant scientists who found themselves confounded by normal life.