When your mother, the most remarkable female mathematician
in history, dies your world becomes skewed in more ways than one. Alexander
Karnokovitch wants to put his mother to rest privately, but it is not to
be. Many colleagues from around the
world intend to come and pay their last respects to the remarkable Rachela, and
they will not be swayed. Of course it is rumored that she has solved a famous
mathematical problem and that solution may be hidden in her home. As the math
crowd descends on Madison, Wisconsin—Alexander (Sasha) has to deal with their demanding
personalities in addition to his grief. The Mathematician’s Shiva by
Stuart Rojstaczer is a funny, introspective, and enlightening novel about academia and family life. DB
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