The Wild Numbers Philibert Schogt

This is a lighthearted, enjoyable novel about a bumbling but likable mathematics professor at an unnamed university who believes that he has discovered a solution to a famous mathematical puzzle known as "Beauregard's Wild Number Problem." Isaac Swift is socially and romantically awkward and is certainly less accomplished professionally than his colleagues in the math department. Nonetheless, he is a sympathetic character, and this capably crafted first novel follows his misadventures as he tries to achieve immortality as a mathematician, create a love life for himself, and fend off a deranged former high school math teacher who returns to the university as a student and ends up tormenting the entire department. Although Swift does not achieve immortality, by the end of the novel (after surviving a variety of catastrophes) he is modestly triumphant--at work with a colleague on a new research project and in love with a kind and sensible woman. Recommended for libraries with large modern fiction collections. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге The Wild Numbers (Philibert Schogt)