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The Mathematician's Shiva : a novel
- Title
- The Mathematician's Shiva : a novel / Stuart Rojstaczer.
- Author
- Rojstaczer, Stuart.
- Publication
- New York : Penguin Books, 2014.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 14-5402 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 366 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- " A comic, bittersweet tale of family evocative of The Yiddish Policemen's Union and Everything Is Illuminated 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 e;migre; 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 hilarious and multi-layered debut novel brims with colorful characters and brilliantly captures humanity's drive not just to survive, but to solve the impossible"--
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Humorous fiction.
- Fiction.
- Call Number
- JFD 14-5402
- ISBN
- 9780143126317
- 0143126318
- LCCN
- 2014012521
- 40024210865
- OCLC
- 870919250
- Author
- Rojstaczer, Stuart.
- Title
- The Mathematician's Shiva : a novel / Stuart Rojstaczer.
- Publisher
- New York : Penguin Books, 2014.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40024210865
- Research Call Number
- JFD 14-5402