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This is the story of three generations of women who live with the conflict of their own genius as mathematicians, and the competing responsibilities of bringing up and relating to their own children.
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Sue Woolfe's biography states that she knows nothing about mathematics. With the central event of her novel set in 1994, she ought to have had a fairly easy job of finding out how math is done and discussed nowadays, and who does it and why. However, Woolfe's determination to humiliate her main character, middle-aged prodigy Frances Montrose, with the scorn of a unanimously badly behaved, testosterone-driven male mathematical establishment leads to her to untruth, fatally undermining the premise and effect of her novel. Deliberately demonizing men as mates and as mathematicians is sexism of the worst kind. The multigenerational familial dissonance and harmony of this book, its redeeming features, are lost in Woolfe's caricaturing of men and women and a science she does not understand.
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Sue Woolfe teaches writing at Sydney University, is a Writer-in-Residence at Rollins College, Florida, and has been part of the International Writing Program at Iowa State University.
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