The world's genius mathematician and Hideo Kobayashi in the greatest casual conversation ever. From the taste of sake to Einstein. To put it simply, it's a casual conversation. But it's not just any casual conversation. It's a casual conversation between a historical genius with a literary mind and a historical genius with a scientific mind. Academia, art, sake, modern mathematics, Einstein, haiku, reading aloud, Norinaga Motoori, Dostoevsky, Van Gogh, non-Euclidean geometry, trigonometric functions, Plato, reason... The subjects shift rapidly. And all of the words are full of suggestion and universality. It can be said to be the most intellectual casual conversation in Japanese history. Hideo Kobayashi, Kiyoshi Oka Publisher: Shinchosha; Bunko edition (February 26, 2010) Paperback: 192 pages