Born in the Warsaw ghetto and growing up in France during the rise of Hitler, Benoit Mandelbrot found escape from the cruelties of the world around him through mathematics. Logic sometimes makes monsters, and Mandelbrot began hunting monsters at an early age.
Drawn into the infinite promulgations of formulae, he sinks into secret dimensions and unknown wonders. His gifts do not make his life easier, however. As the Nazis give up the pretense of puppet government in Vichy France, the jealousy of Mandelbrots classmates leads to denunciation and disaster. The young mathematician must save his family with the secret spaces hes discovered, or his genius will destroy them.
Real-life genius Benoit Mandelbrot, born in Warsaw and survivor of Nazi-occupied France, went on to become one of the world’s most highly regarded mathematicians, best known for his pioneering work in fractals. This novella takes that story and spins it into a magical realist tale where mathematics and magic are one and the same. A gorgeous mixture of alternate history, biography, mathematics and fantasy. All in a book you could finish in less than an hour.
