Reading fiction, non-fiction, romance or even mystery/horror
stories online or in book is one of my hobbies. But this time a novel really
amazed me because instead of having common stories it has to get out of that
“box” of novel that we know. By using mathematics and its concepts plus the
creativity of writing, it comes up to an extraordinary novel.
“A Certain Ambiguity” by Gauruv Suri and Hartosh Singh Bal.
A story of Ravi Kapoor that committed his life to mathematics, since he was
given a puzzle problem by his grandfather in the calculator. Ravi was accepted
in Stanford where he studied Economics and met his professor named Nico that
thinks about “Infinity”. And then he discovered lately that his grandfather
studied this topic and was jailed because of blasphemy and this is where the
adventure began. The involvement of the famous subject in the history of Mathematics
like Euclidian Geometry, Paul Cohen's Consistency theorems, Farkas Bolyai and
his son Janos, Bernhard Riemann, Albert Einstein and other mathematical
personalities and discoveries; this made the novel really educational.
I can say that Math subject in this book was not “forced” to
fit in making this novel, thus the author did not stray the ingredients of the
mathematics in a novel.
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