Leaning toward infinity
Subtitle: how my mother's apron unfolds into my life
By: Sue Woolfe
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 393
ISBN-13: 9780571199051
Subjects: Mothers and daughters; Women mathematicians; Fiction
Work titles: Leaning towards infinity
Description: The story of three generations of mathematically gifted women. Juanita starts work on a theorem but is sidetracked by domesticity and it will befall to her daughter, Frances, to announce it at a mathematics conference in Greece. The story is told by Hypatia, Frances' daughter. By an Australian writer.