Posts tagged: the mathematician's shiva
Coming to Town: Stuart Rojstaczer for The Mathematician's Shiva
Posted on 2014-09-08 at 13:39 by montsamu
"Her craziness was happily wed to her intellect. There are no reasonable geniuses in this world, I am convinced." So writes middle-aged fictional geophysicist Alexander "Sasha" Karnokovitch of his mother, within the pages of actual geophysicist Stuart Rojstaczer's debut novelĀ The Mathematician's Shiva. A brilliant mathematician, Rachela is rumored to be taking the secret proof to the Navier-Stokes equation to her grave. But first, and trust me, somehow this all works, Rojstaczer gives us alternating scenes
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