About the book: 2012 / A boring, strange and unsexy eccentric with glasses - this is how we imagine a typical “nerd”. However, without legendary “nerds” such as Diogenes, Kant or Bill Gates, our civilization would be deprived of many benefits and achievements, beautiful symphonies, the law of relativity and MS-DOS. A new book by bestselling author Jörg Zittlau is dedicated to these truly outstanding figures..