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Adrian Duncan: The Geometer Lobachevsky (Hardcover, 2022, Tuskar Rock Press) 4 stars

It is 1950 and Nikolai Lobachevsky, great-grandson of his illustrious namesake, is surveying a bog …

Chris Beausang: 'The acclaim [Adrian] Duncan’s works have secured to date has in large part to do with how unique themes such as state-formation and infrastructure are … I am totally unaware of any other work in which the ambivalence of being a technocrat in a specific post-revolutionary context is treated with this level of seriousness.'

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