Padma Venkatraman





Padma Venkatraman

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Padma Venkatraman was born in Chennai, India. When she was young she took a liking toward mathematics, science, and literature. Because she loved numbers, and words, she decided to move to the U.S. and study oceanography.
Padma has had various jobs in oceanography from being the head chief and living in Germany, to a post doctoral researcher at the Whiting School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. She also worked on being a director, teacher for math and science. She then decided to pursue a career in writing, her first love. Padma currently lives in Rhode Island, with her family.


Average rating: 3.80 · 1,581 ratings · 411 reviews · 4 distinct works · Similar authors
Climbing the Stairs
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 1,411 ratings — published 2008 — 11 editions
Island's End
3.58 of 5 stars 3.58 avg rating — 162 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions
Double Stars: The Story of ...
2.75 of 5 stars 2.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2007
Women Mathematicians
4.5 of 5 stars 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2008

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What Book Shall We Read in October?

I have chosen books that are getting a lot of attention and were published in July and August. Feel free to add books to the list, if they were published in July and August 2011

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  8 votes 19.5%

 
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  5 votes 12.2%

 
  4 votes 9.8%

Summer I learned to fly (write-in)
 
  3 votes 7.3%

 
  2 votes 4.9%

 
  1 vote 2.4%

 
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