Simon: The Genius in my BasementFrom the author of Stuart: A Life Backwards; a warm and witty portrait of a harmless, eccentric, bona fide genius. Alexander Masters landlord, Simon, lives in the basement of their Cambridge house. Between teetering towers of outdated maps and slagheaps of plastic bags, Simon eats endless meals of tinned kippers and plans trips on the Cambridge public transport system. But Simon was one of the greatest mathematical prodigies of the twentieth century.