The Mathematician's Shiva (Audiobook)

from mamzel

Alexander Karnokovitch's mother was a brilliant mathematician. After her death scores of mathematicians show up at her house, ostensibly to sit shiva, but actually to search her house for the results of her years of work on the Navier-Stokes problem, one of the last unsolved mysteries of mathemat...

from julie10reads

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 emigre; mathematician and professor at the University of Wisconsin, is rumored to have solved the million-dollar, Navier-Stokes Millennium Pr...

from Richj

A well written novel about the funeral rites of a world-famous female mathematician who escaped the gulag to almost (or more) solving mathematics hardest problem. Mathematicians from all over gather for the seven day shiva (or for their own interests) as do her family, expected or not. Narrated b...

from Cherylk

This is not my typical style of reading but every once in a while I do like to branch out and try no books and I love checking out new authors. So glad that I did take a chance on this book. It is a gem. Like finding a friend. Instantly I formed a bond with Sasha, his mother, and the other mathem...

from bowedbookshelf

"...smart people do stupid things far more often than most people realize."This beautifully conceived novel revolves around the death of a world-class mathematician and the resolution of a proof about turbulence, or the chaotic movement of air and water in the atmosphere during a hurricane. "Actu...