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The Tenth Muse

English · Paperback / Softback

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The first thing I remember being said of me with any consistency was that I was intelligent - and I recognized even then that it was a comment leveled at me with as much disapproval as admiration. Still, I never tried to hide or suppress my mind as some girls do, and thank god, because that would have been the beginning of the end. From childhood, Katherine knows she is different, and that her parents are not who they seem to be. But in becoming a mathematician, she faces the most human of problems - who is she? What is the cost of love, and what is the cost of ambition? On her quest to conquer the Riemann Hypothesis, the greatest unsolved mathematical problem of her time, she turns to a theorem with a mysterious history that holds both the lock and key to her identity, and to secrets long buried during World War II. Forced to confront some of the biggest events of the twentieth century and rethink everything she knows of herself, Katherine strives to take her place in the world of higher mathematics, reclaiming the voices of the women who came before her whose love of the language of numbers connects them across generations. The Tenth Muse is a brilliant, involving novel asking questions about who gets to tell the story of intellectual endeavour, and those who lost everything during World War II.

Product details

Authors Catherine Chung
Publisher Little Brown
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 30.06.2019
 
EAN 9781408709573
ISBN 978-1-4087-0957-3
No. of pages 304
Dimensions 152 mm x 232 mm x 26 mm
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature

FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Women, Fiction & related items, FICTION / Literary, Second World War fiction, FICTION / Historical / World War II, FICTION / Jewish, FICTION / Asian American, Fiction: general and literary

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