On her quest to conquer the Riemann Hypothesis, the greatest unsolved mathematical problem of her time, Katherine turns to a theorem with a mysterious history that holds both the lock and key to her identity, and to secrets long buried during World War II in Germany. Katherine strives to take her place in the world of higher mathematics and finds kinship in the stories of the women who came before her - their love of the language of numbers connecting them across generations.
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ISBN:9780062574060
Physical Description:print regular print 290 pages ; 24 cm
Edition:First edition.
Publisher:New York :Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,2019.
Summary: On her quest to conquer the Riemann Hypothesis, the greatest unsolved mathematical problem of her time, Katherine turns to a theorem with a mysterious history that holds both the lock and key to her identity, and to secrets long buried during World War II in Germany. Katherine strives to take her place in the world of higher mathematics and finds kinship in the stories of the women who came before her - their love of the language of numbers connecting them across generations.