The Tenth Muse
| Author | Chung, Catherine |
|---|---|
| Year | 2019 |
| First published | 2019 |
| Publisher | : Little, Brown |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Edition | First Hardcover Edition |
| ISBN | 9781408709580 |
| Keywords | mathematics, academic science, women in science, literary or mainstream, historical, female scientist, scientist main character, USA or Canada |
Abstract
From childhood, Katherine knows she is different, and that her parents are not who they seem to be. But in becoming a mathematician, she faces the most human of problems - who is she? What is the cost of love, and what is the cost of ambition?
On her quest to conquer
the Riemann hypothesis, the greatest unsolved mathematical problem of
her time, she turns to a theorem with a mysterious history that holds
both the lock and key to her identity, and to secrets long buried during
World War II. Forced to confront some of the biggest events of the
twentieth century and rethink everything she knows of herself, Katherine
strives to take her place in the world of higher mathematics,
reclaiming the voices of the women who came before her whose love of the
language of numbers connects them across generations. (AMAZON)