- Biography, Mathematicians, Genius, Philosophy
"The narrator is a scientist herself, a physicist obsessed with Kurt Godel, the greatest logician of many centuries, and with Alan Turing, the extraordinary mathematician, breaker of the Enigma Code during World War II.
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Grave, contemplative, prestige and earnest.
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Janna Levin
- First published
- 2006
- Pages
- 230
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Phoenix
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781400040308
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