Margaret Wertheim’s Pythagoras’ Trousers: God, Physics and the Gender Wars
(Fourth Estate, £7.99, ISBN 1 85702 697 7) is now in paperback. Maggie Gee
was full of praise for this fascinating investigation of the culture of physics
when she reviewed the hardback in 51¶¯Âþ (16 September 1995, p44).
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