The Mathematician's Shiva by Stuart Rojstaczer

The Mathematician's Shiva by Stuart Rojstaczer

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING DEBUT FICTION

For readers of This Is Where I Leave You and Everything Is Illuminated, "a brilliant and compelling family saga full of warmth, pathos, history and humor" (Jonathan Evison, author of West of Here)
 
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, determined to find the proof or solve it for themselves--even if it means prying up the floorboards for notes or desperately scrutinizing the mutterings of her African Grey parrot--Sasha must come to terms with his mother's outsized influence on his life.

Spanning decades and continents, from a crowded living room in Madison, Wisconsin, to the windswept beach on the Barents Sea where a young Rachela had her first mathematical breakthrough, The Mathematician's Shiva is an unexpectedly moving and uproariously funny novel that captures humanity's drive not just to survive, but to achieve the impossible.

Stuart Rojstaczer is a Milwaukee native who holds degrees from the University of Wisconsin, the University of Illinois, and Stanford University. He was a geophysics professor at Duke University for many years. He is a resident of Northern California.

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ISBN 13	9780143126317
ISBN 10	0143126318
Title	The Mathematician's Shiva
Author	Stuart Rojstaczer
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd
Year published	2014-09-02
Number of pages	384
Prizes	Winner of National Jewish Book Award (Debut Fiction) 2014
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