Daniel Clowes' middle name is Gillespie; the potential connection he – or, more likely, it would seem, his parents – have to jazz and the great trumpeter and bandleader may be the only part of Clowes' life that he has not sought, with an often courageous and selfless ugliness, to explo

Paul Erdös was one of the most eminent mathematicians of the twentieth century, as famed for his prolific output and outsize capacity for abstract mathematic comprehension as he was for his incurable wanderlust and distaste for sleep.  His extraordinary productivity, preference for colla