The Goddess of Small Victories [electronic resource] : A Novel of Gödel's Wife
Yannick Grannec2014
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Step into the world of Kurt Gödel: his life, his marriage, his friendship with
Einstein, and his legacy in this internationally best-selling novel.
Princeton University, 1980. Kurt Gödel, 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 Gödel's precious
records. Anna Roth is given the difficult task of befriending Adele and
retrieving the documents from her. As Adele opens the gates of her memory, the
two women travel back into the life she shared with her enigmatic husband:
Vienna during the Nazi era, Princeton right after the war, the pressures of
McCarthyism, the end of the positivist ideal, and the advent of nuclear weapons.
Yannick Grannec brilliantly narrates the epic story of a geniu...
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Author:
Yannick Grannec, Author
Imprint:
United States : Other Press, 2014
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1 online resource (1 text file) (472.0 pages, 2587.0 Kbytes)
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General/trade
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Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781590516379
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English
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BRN:
427645
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