Liz Ziemska has fashioned a beautiful story about one famous survivor and the magic and mathematics he\'s brought to the world.
The young mathematician must save his family with the secret spaces he\'s discovered, or his genius will destroy them..
As the Nazis give up the pretense of puppet government in Vichy France, the jealousy of Mandelbrot\'s classmates leads to denunciation and disaster.
His gifts do not make his life easier, however.
Drawn into the infinite promulgations of formulae, he sinks into secret dimensions and unknown wonders.
Logic sometimes makes monsters, and Mandelbrot began hunting monsters at an early age. --Karen Joy Fowler Mandelbrot the Magnificent is a stunning, magical pseudo-biography of Benoit Mandelbrot as he flees into deep mathematics to escape the rise of Hitler Born in Warsaw and growing up in France during the rise of Hitler, Benoit Mandelbrot found escape from the cruelties of the world around him through mathematics.
Liz Ziemska has fashioned a beautiful story about one famous survivor and the magic and mathematics he\'s brought to the world
