A Doubter's Almanac
Subtitle: A Novel
By: Ethan Canin
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 558
ISBN-13: 9781400068265; 9780812996784
Subjects: Fiction; Literary; Gifted persons; Families; Coming of age; Jealousy; Fathers and sons; Family life; Coming of Age; Sagas; FICTION; Amerikanisches Englisch
Description: "Milo Andret, the genius who solved the Malosz Conjecture and won the Fields Medal for mathematics, had an unusual, even eerie mind from birth, but not until he moves to Berkeley in the 1970s to pursue a ph. D. does he realize the extent of his singular talents. From the drug-soaked enclaves of beatnik California to the verdant lawns of Princeton University, from turbo-charged Wall Street to the quiet woods of Michigan, his reputation as one of the century's most brilliant thinkers forms the backbone of a sweeping, epic story about family, love, passion, and Milo's fraught relationship with his son. With magnificent prose and enormous storytelling magic, Ethan Canin gives us a suspenseful, original novel about the nature of genius, and a son's quest to understand the mystery of his father's life, and its legacy in his own"--
Table of contents: title: Induction. A late arrival ; Impossible ; Welcome to the world ; Singularity theory; title: Deduction. Nature never lies ; poets ; The Newton of North Oakland ; Devil's fork ; The orrery ; China white; title: Contraposition. Fine Hall ; Occam's razor ; Rise over run ; Dogs and horses ; Another roof, another proof ; Time and chance ; You can't comb the hair on a coconut ; Regression to the mean ; Welcome to the future ; Order of operations ; Transire Suum Pectus ; Ant on a rubber rope ; Reductio ad Impossibilem ; A Scandinavian weed ; Discovery ; Inventory; title: Restatement. I confess ; Volatility smile ; The great war of the calculus ; Professor Gamble ; Nunquam Cede ; Scrivener's errors; title: Conjecture. The tristate singularity ; Flatland ; A marrow lover's feast ; A nonconforming interval ; The reluctant Cartesian ; The real are almost all irrational ; Thomson's lamp ; Disciplina in Civitatem ; Molly and Sally; title: Summation. Salads ; Non-Brownian gray ; Analysis Situs; title: Proof. Drunkard's walk ; Alpha ; A topologist's apology ; The prisoner's dilemma ; Theodicy ; The expected teaches nothing ; Easy does it ; The truth at last ; Brompton's mixture ; The sum of infinitesimals ; The witch of Agnesi ; A unifying conjecture ; Contra Deum ; The Lord's daughter ; Proof by exhaustion ; 4656534 ; The curse of knowledge ; Mysterium Cosmographicum ; Drake ; The Battle of Trafalgar.