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Ananyo Bhattacharya, who holds a PhD in biophysics from Imperial College London, has worked as a science correspondent at the Economist, an editor at Nature, and a medical researcher at the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute in San Diego, California. ‘The Man from the Future’, an intellectual biography of Hungarian-American mathematical genius John von Neumann, is his first book. He lives in London.