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 emigre 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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