City of Belmont - Ruth Faulkner Public Library

A reissue of this bestselling Australian Vintage classic PLEASE NOTE NEW ISBN: 00918 40163 ** Tying in with the premiere of the play Leaning Towards Infinity in Sydney in 1997 ** Tying in with the publication of Sue's anthology Wild Minds: Stories of Courage, Madness and Love Winner 1996 Christina Stead Prize for Fiction Winner 1997 Commonwealth Writers Prize Best Book South-East Asia and Pacific This is not my story. It is the story of Frances Montrose, an Australian woman with no formal mathematics training who carried across the world, in a borrowed suitcase bulging with a friend's balldresses, something no one knew about. The discovery of a new number. I can barely add up so I can't tell you much about her mathematics. Only to say she was a genius. And she was my mother, my love, my emptiness. Her mathematics was her secret passion and her curse. And my curse too.

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Leaning Towards Infinity