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001			007615801
005			20180722215802.0
008			140616s2014 nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a2014012521
019			_a870984445
020			_a0143126318 (paperback)
020			_a9780143126317 (paperback)
035			_a(OCoLC)870919250 _z(OCoLC)870984445
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC _dYDXCP _dBDX _dBTCTA _dOCLCO _dLF3 _dVP@ _dIH7 _dCOO _dCDX _dNFG
042			_apcc
049			_aNFGB
099			_aRojstacz _aStuart
100	1		_aRojstaczer, Stuart. _9260847
245	1	4	_aThe mathematician's shiva : _ba novel / _cStuart Rojstaczer.
263			_a1409
264		1	_aNew York : _bPenguin Books, _c2014.
300			_a366 pages ; _c21 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
520			_a"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 émigré 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."-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aJewish teachers _vFiction. _9260848
650		0	_aMathematicians _vFiction. _9119701
650		0	_aMathematics _vProblems, exercises, etc. _vFiction. _9260849
650		0	_aMourning customs _vFiction. _9260850
655		7	_aHumorous fiction. _2gsafd _9326
942			_cBOOK _09
994			_aC0 _bNFG
997			_aRojstacz Stuart
998			_a007615801
999			_c178604 _d178604