3rd Book Review
The novel captivates us with its inspiring plot. This is
also a book, a book of mathematics in which discusses and present how the
beauty of mathematics became relevance in understanding the surrounding world.
In every page, mathematicians or mathematics are mentioned. It is a fiction, a
novel, a romance that are all wrap up to give precision of mathematics
The
story circles the life of a young man named Ravi Kapoor. His life began with a
wistful recurrence experienced to the time that his mathematician grandfather
gave him a math problem. His grandfather died on the next day but he is left
with the realization of the importance his father left in his life. Due to the
fact that he grew with the absence of his grandfather, he became unresponsive
to mathematics.
Ravi was accepted to Stanford University and motivated
towards a career of economics. While taking his course, he keep on thinking
about Infinity and his professor Nico, who incidentally specializes the field
of his grandfather, became his friend. Nico found a paper where his grandfather
perceive his ideas while he is in New Jersey jail. Nico discusses his lectures
about prominent role of infinity. On the other hand, Ravi was working and made
research into his grandfather imprisonment that produces transcript about the
philosophical talk on the truth. His father was sent on jail under blasphemy
law.
The book tackles about the theorems of Paul Cohen’s
Consistency and enigmas and infinitude of primes of Zeno. It also discusses
about the axiomatic method, Euclid’s axioms, and also the existence of
non-Euclidean Geometry.
The scope of the discussion eased through this book, but
the author skilfully present additional viewpoints by the present mathematical
community. There were so much in this book like philosophy, mathematics, and
etc. The authors well present the mathematics organizingly though they only got
excerpts from Ravi’s grandfather’s diary and discusses great mathematicians and
scientist. The rest of the book is more on fiction but the authors where
successfully present it in mathematical way.
The book is very informative though I haven’t finished
reading it. We learned that despite Ravi became unresponsive to mathematics but
he eventually preferred the career in mathematics over economics. The book
shows the evolving romance between Ravi and Claire. Over all, this is also a
recommendable to read.
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