Daniel Asher

Daniel Asher is a British-American science biographer and former Cambridge computational mathematician who spent fourteen years at the Isaac Newton Institute before turning to long-form non-fiction.

His fourteen biographies treat scientific lives as moral documents: most centrally Alan Turing (The Imitation Game) — the inventor of the computer prosecuted by the country he saved — and a continuing run of figures from the cryptographic, nuclear, computational, and biological revolutions of the twentieth century. He writes mathematics into prose without dumbing it down and refuses the genre's tendency to canonise.

He lives in Cambridge in a flat overlooking the Cam. Influences: Andrew Hodges, Walter Isaacson, Janet Browne.