Yannick Grannec
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Princeton University 1980.Kurt Gd̲el, the most fascinating, though hermetic, mathematician of the twentieth century, has just died of anorexia.His widow, Adele, a fierce woman shunned by her husband?s colleagues because she had been a cabaret dancer, is now consigned to a nursing home. To the great annoyance of the Institute of Advanced Studies, she refuses to hand over Gd̲el?s precious records. Anna Roth, the timid daughter of two...