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Clifford Pickover's Strange Brains and Genius: The Secret Lives of Eccentric Scientists and Madmen explores the thin and often blurred line between exceptional intelligence and clinical madness. Published in 1998, the book provides biographical sketches of history’s most brilliant yet bizarre figures, using their lives to examine the neurological and psychological underpinnings of creativity.

Pickover organizes the book around "profiles" of individuals whose extreme eccentricities were as notable as their contributions to science and philosophy: Clifford Pickover - Strange Brains & Genius

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