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The Mathematician's Shiva : a novel / Stuart Rojstaczer.

By:

Rojstaczer, Stuart

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Penguin Books , 2014Description: 366 p. ; 21 cmISBN:

9780143126317

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Humorous fiction

DDC classification:

FIC ROJ

LOC classification:

PS3618.O536 M38 2014

Summary: Alexander "Sasha" Karnokovitch and his family would like to mourn the passing of his mother, Rachela, with modesty and dignity. But Rachela, a famous Polish émigré mathematician and professor at the University of Wisconsin, is rumored to have solved the million-dollar, Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem. Rumor also has it that she spitefully took the solution to her grave. To Sasha's chagrin, a ragtag group of socially challenged mathematicians arrives in Madison and crashes the shiva, vowing to do whatever it takes to find the solution - even if it means prying up the floorboards for Rachela's notes. Written by a trained geophysicist, this novel brims with colorful characters and captures humanity's drive not just to survive, but to solve the impossible".

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Fiction / Ficción	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	General	FIC ROJ (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		025324

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Alexander "Sasha" Karnokovitch and his family would like to mourn the passing of his mother, Rachela, with modesty and dignity. But Rachela, a famous Polish émigré mathematician and professor at the University of Wisconsin, is rumored to have solved the million-dollar, Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem. Rumor also has it that she spitefully took the solution to her grave. To Sasha's chagrin, a ragtag group of socially challenged mathematicians arrives in Madison and crashes the shiva, vowing to do whatever it takes to find the solution - even if it means prying up the floorboards for Rachela's notes. Written by a trained geophysicist, this novel brims with colorful characters and captures humanity's drive not just to survive, but to solve the impossible".

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