The Mathematician's Shiva: a novel
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| Grouping Title | mathematicians shiva |
| Grouping Author | stuart rojstaczer |
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| Grouping Language | English (eng) |
| Last Grouping Update | 2025-05-02 05:08:39AM |
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" 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"--
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2014
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Humorous fiction
Jewish fiction
Jewish teachers -- Fiction
Mathematicians -- Fiction
Mathematics -- Problems, exercises, etc. -- Fiction
Mournung customs -- Fiction
Jewish fiction
Jewish teachers -- Fiction
Mathematicians -- Fiction
Mathematics -- Problems, exercises, etc. -- Fiction
Mournung customs -- Fiction
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The Mathematician's Shiva : a novel
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The Mathematician's Shiva : a novel / Stuart Rojstaczer
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The Mathematician's Shiva
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a novel
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Jewish teachers
Mathematicians
Mathematics
Mournung customs
Mathematicians
Mathematics
Mournung customs
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