Contributed by
Hauke Reddmann
Dear Prof. Kasman,
I strongly believe this book might interest you. It's a German bestseller
and has high Amazon ratings.
The math is uncompromising (the author rather goes for genuineness and
doesn't care when it goes above the head of the average reader) and
the (German) campus scenes are spot on (as far as I can judge - I never
studied *math*). The plot is the improbable friendship (?!) between a
talented but annoyingly chaotic housewife and your cliched autistic math
wunderkind (but then, I would be a walking cliche too - the hero had a few
uncanny similarities with me, especially not grokking the concept of
social lies).
The title, "Pi mal Daumen", literally "pi times thumb", meaning
"approximately and not even bothering for better data", is in-universe
a student zine.
Sometimes amusing, sometimes confusing, but in any case beating
my very low expectations (bestsellers tend to suck :-).
Ratings: Literary Quality: 3.5 / Math and Math Life: 4.5 / Overall: 4.
Yours sincerely
Hauke
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