The story started when Ravi Kapoor was given a
mathematical puzzle by his grandfather on the calculator. Amazed by
the fact Ravi became committed to math ever since. Ravi is accepted
in Stanford studying economics. He lately met his professor Nico in
the class “Thinking About Infinity.” One time he discovered that
his grandfather specializes in this topic and was jailed because of
blasphemy while doing his research. This happening started the quest
of Ravi in researching about his grandfather's imprisonment.
The story had great plot in involving mathematics in
the story like the discussions about Euclidian Geometry, Paul Cohen's
Consistency theorems, Farkas Bolyai and his son Janos, Bernhard
Riemann, Albert Einstein and other mathematical personalities and
discoveries.
Although filled with mathematical conversations and
discussions the authors doesn't forget to write about the personal
story of the characters just like the love that emerged between Ravi
and Claire.
I am sure that any novel readers would love this
story even if sometimes we cannot understand the mathematical terms
and problems that we could encounter in this book.
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