While at times the novel is sentimental, the wonder and humor with which the protagonist approaches life, and the many emotions and discoveries he experiences, are worth getting a bit weepy over. Haig (The Radleys) creates a delightful sense of displacement in “Andrew” and draws the reader into the experiences that make us human, ugly, wonderful, and mundane by turns. Customers gave The Humans by Matt Haig 5.0 out of 5 stars based on 4 reviews. A fish-out-of water mashup where the water is Earth, and the fish is an extraterrestrial. The Humans is a funny, compulsively readable tale that playfully and movingly explores the ultimate subjectourselves. The invader inhabits the body of Andrew Martin, the arrogant and selfish mathematician who discovered the proof to Riemann’s hypothesis at first disgusted and confused by his human shell, the alien is eventually transformed, and the more time he spends with Andrew’s wife and son, the more he comes to doubt his mission. Praised by the New York Times as a novelist of great seriousness and talent, author Matt Haig delivers an unlikely story about human nature and the joy found in the messiness of life on Earth.
The Vonnadorians wish to prevent humans from gaining knowledge before they are psychologically prepared for the advancements that would ensue.
In 2012, an unnamed alien is sent to Earth to ensure the hypothesis is never proven. In 1859, German mathematician Bernard Riemann put forth a hypothesis that prime numbers have a pattern.
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