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09.08: Stuart Rojstaczer
2014-08-18 20:39:23| Powells Books Events Calendar
When the greatest female mathematician in history passes away, her son, Alexander "Sasha" Karnokovitch, just wants to mourn his mother in peace. But rumor has it the notoriously eccentric Polish émigré has solved one of the most difficult problems in all of mathematics and has spitefully taken the solution to her grave. As a ragtag group of mathematicians from around the world descends upon Rachela's shiva, Sasha must come to terms with his mother's outsized influence on his life. Stuart Rojstaczer's The Mathematician's Shiva (Penguin) is an unexpectedly moving and uproariously funny novel that captures humanity's drive not just to survive, but to achieve the impossible.
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