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This was such a charming and heart-warming read: there was so much beauty in the writing, on the surface simple yet at the same time filled with hidden meanings and complexities, just like the intricate lace the housekeeper imagines, with awe, that the mathematician professor is able to glimpse. I liked how, in keeping with the professor having to be reintroduced to the housekeeper and her son throughout her special time with him, the reader too was kept in the dark about the names of the charac
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An unusual book. unusual characters unusual plot . Of all the things Mathematics is the hero here or rather a Professor who loves maths and whose lyrical ways of presenting the subject makes one fall in love with maths too. And that is coming from someone like me who hates Maths. I loved the way he talked about numbers with a loving caress and there were many things new to me the amicable numbers the twin numbers .
The story does not follow the usual plot line of a beginning a middle and an end ...more
The story does not follow the usual plot line of a beginning a middle and an end ...more
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