The Mathematicians Shiva

Posted on 21 March 2018 by Stuart Rojstaczer

A comic, bittersweet tale of family evocative of The Yiddish Policemen s Union andEverything Is IlluminatedAlexander Sasha Karnokovitch and his family would like to mourn the passing of his mother, Rachela, with modesty and dignity But Rachela, a famous Polish migr mathematician and professor at the University of Wisconsin, is rud 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 Ph.D 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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instantly at the site of such a thing.You are probably thinking perhaps, Why does this author show us such opaque symbolism Forget this book by this middle aged man raised by eccentric mathematicians as if thereare any other kind One of his parents is already dead in the story and was probably the most interesting charac...Sometimes I ll walk past my old house with my stepsons or my grandchildren when we re on our way to Vilas Park and I ll just stop, look up, and reminisce, and try to think how I could possibly explain all that happened inside to these people who are so utterly American I can t do it Maybe when they ll read this book they ll understand just a bit of what it was about Yes, they will understand better Even though this is fiction, it feels so real It s we who ll understand .The book has a Sometimes I ll walk past my old house with my stepsons or my grandchildren when we re on our way to Vilas Park and I ll just stop, look up, and reminisce, and try to think how I could possibly explain all that happened inside to these people who are so utterly American I can t do it Maybe when they ll read this book they ll understand just a bit of what it was about Yes, they will understand better Even though this is fiction, it feels so r...What a sparkling novel it jumps with life And it is unique too, IMHO Beautiful World tells us about a Mathematician This is different than just the biography of an intellect It details not only the world of Academia in Mathematics seated in Midwest America , but also the story of an immigrant Russian Jewish through Poland family Our narrator is the single son telling of his Mother s death and shiva There are at least 10 characters of excellent reveal in this novel The writing is multi l What a sparkling novel it jumps with life And it is unique too, IMHO Beautiful World tells us about ...This book has received substantial critical acclaim, and the 2014 National Jewish Book Award for best debut novel It s a shame that it is notwidely read It s well written, funny, heart wrenching, and intellectual A wonderful book club choice Rachela Karnokovitch is one of the greatest math geniuses in history Born in the USSR, her life is shaped by the harsh life in a Soviet gulag in Siberia, where her mother dies and she and her father starve Rachela is convinced that hardship and d This book has...smart people do stupid things faroften 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 Actually, it isthan this The big D in the Navier Stokes equation is called the material derivative, and it refers to watching velocities of fluids change not from a fixed ref...Although the word Shiva conjures a Hindu deity, it is also a term used for the seven days of mourning following the death of a loved one, a Jewish coda for they who practice the faith Shiva is also a word that New Yorkers use to describe the intense cold they feel At least it sounds that way But I digress Apologies.The Mathematician in the title is a literary device ...4 stars This was different, but totally captivating I first spotted this book on Goodreads somewhere, and later saw it had been a Book of the Month pick for the Jewish Book Club awhile back I don t know if anyone reviewed it, but I will add my review to the list I also picked it as one of my four choices for my personal prosperity challenge This was a good solid read Its just interesting to note When my prosperity books were ordered by rating, highest to lowest, this ended up almost at th 4 stars This was different, but totally captivating I first spotted this book on Goodreads somewhere, and later saw it had been a Book of the Month pick for the Jewish Book Club awhile back I don t know if anyone reviewed it, but I will add my review to the list I also picked it as one of my four choice...Those who regularly read my Goodreads updates know I rarely give 5 star reviews But I not only greatly enjoyed reading this book a debut novel, no less , I found no flaws worth mentioning Funny, poignant, clever, delightful, and exciting, with an amazing array of fascinating and fabulous characters Nice to read a book with a heroic Jewish mother who s a genius and feminist for a change Most authors are lucky to manage one flashback well, but Stuart Rojstaczer succeeded at taking me back and Those who regularly read my Goodreads updates know I rarely give 5 star reviews But I not only greatly enjoyed reading this book a debut novel, no less , ...This story is narrated by Alexander Sasha Karnokovitch, whose famous mathematics prodigy mother died when Sasha was 51 It is now ten years later, and he is recalling the circus created by her death Rachela Karnokovitch was a Polish Russian Jew who had studied under the great Russian mathematician Kolmogorov Kolmogorov is famous for many advances in mathematical theory, including some related to random processes and the effects of turbulence It had been rud that Sasha s mother, unde This story is narrated by Alexander Sasha Karnokovitch, whose famous mathematics prodigy mother died when Sasha was 51 It is now ten years later, and he is recalling the circus created by her death Rachela Karnokovitch was a Polish Russian Jew who had studied under the great Russian mathematician Kolmogorov Kolmogorov is famous for many advances in mathematical theory, including some related to random processes and the effects of turbulence It had been rud that Sasha s ...I am not a numbers person at all So, when I received my Goodreads Giveaway copy of Stuart Rojstaczer s The Mathematician s Shiva, I was a little skeptical Luckily, I found this novel thoroughly entertaining Told with self deprecating humor and warmth, this is the story of Sasha s mother Rachaela, her defection from the Soviet Union to the United States, and her struggle as a Jewish female in the field of mathematics Though she dies early in the book, we get to know her through her journal ch I am not a numbers person at all So, when I received my Goodreads Giveaway copy of Stuart Rojstaczer s The Mathematician s Shiva, I was a little skeptical Luckily, I found this novel thoroughly entertaining Told with self deprecating humor and warmth, this is the story of Sasha s mother Rachaela, her defection from the Soviet Union to the United States, and her struggle as a Jewish female in the field of mathematics Thoug...

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21 March 2018

Stuart Rojstaczer