The guard tells the proof to his brother, a mathematician named Behrouz Masoumi, who is able to publish it and win a Fields Medal. He then has sex with a Russian Fields Medalist, who had proved Goldbach's conjecture, an act which leads to the birth of a son. The rest of the story mostly concerns that son and the daughter of the executed Pakistani mathematician from the opening paragraph.

It is interesting to compare this story with Knots, another story by the same author with an almost identical setup. In Knots, it is an Iranian guard who is given the proof by a soon-to-be-executed mathematician and passes it to his daugher, rather than a Pakistani guard who passes it to his brother. I would say that math plays a greater role in Knots than in this version of the story. (Conversely, suicide bombings play a larger role in this story than in the other.) What the two stories definitely have in common is that they follow dark, twisted, and unlikely chains of events set off by very similar starting points. Since they are both available for free online (at least at the time of this writing) and relatively short, I recommend that you read and compare them for yourself.

The author is an emeritus professor of psychology at Western Connecticut State University. In addition to these two stories that begin with an execution, he also wrote Ahab’s Mercy which was published under the fiction heading in the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics.