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Review : Soft physics

8 February 1997

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 91av (16 September 1995, p44).

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