The Creativity Code by Marcus du Sautoy – review

Marcus du Sautoy is the kind of science writer who cares more about questions than answers. In his books he tackles "unsolved problems", "number mysteries" and "the great unknown", topics at the edge of human understanding. They are subtitled with words such as "odyssey", "exploration" and "journey". But Du Sautoy is a flaneur: his trips are not motivated by destinations. This is both the main strength and flaw of The Creativity Code, a wide-ranging and fact-packed tour d'horizon of current applications of artificial intelligence in mathematics and the arts.