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  • I do not understand the infatuation  

    The goddess of small victories - the 2013 Prix booksellers (Paperback)
    Boredom, oh, boredom, you're right there in spite of the strong themes that carry the story. I retain not much. Too much confusion. Only respect for the work of the author who gives great pains to explain some mathematical theorems.
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  • Me yes ...  

    The goddess of small victories - the 2013 Prix booksellers (Paperback)
    The Story of Adele, therefore, wife of the great mathematician Gödel. Through the times and places (Austria, crossing Russia to reach Japan and the United States ...), we follow their history torque not very cheerful, because the genius is not necess
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  • Very documented but lacking fluidity  

    The goddess of small victories - the 2013 Prix booksellers (Paperback)
    An article in Time magazine named Kurt Gödel, known in his lifetime as a true god logician and mathematician as hermetic as fascinating among the hundred most important people of the twentieth century. Unknown to the general public and incomprehensib
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  • 2013 Coup heart !!  

    The goddess of small victories - the 2013 Prix booksellers (Paperback)
    Loved me around with Adele in the Vienna before the war, and follow his journey through Eastern Europe, Russia and the Promised Land, the United States. Thanks to her, I talked with Einstein, Oppenheimer, von Neumann and others of my idols, I found t
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  • Femina price!  

    The goddess of small victories - the 2013 Prix booksellers (Paperback)
    Gradually, as I read the goddess of small victories, I thought, "Here's the Prix Femina Sure!" And no ... no ... Price Femina I am surprised! This book had everything to receive it! Apart from this price history, if mathematics (or rather mathem
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  • a very good novel to discover Kurt Gödel's life  

    The goddess of small victories - the 2013 Prix booksellers (Paperback)
    Here is a very good good novel that alternates the relationship between Kurt Gödel and that was to become his wife, Adele, from Austria to the interwar period until the triumphant America of Princeton, and the few months of 1980 -1981 about the end o
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  • The best French novel of the season  

    The goddess of small victories - the 2013 Prix booksellers (Paperback)
    If I say "French" is that I included the Swiss makes a commercial tobacco no other interest than to be formatted. However Goddess small victories is a delightful book, intelligent and moving that really deserves that we make the word of mouth pr
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  • Original, documented and moving  

    The goddess of small victories - the 2013 Prix booksellers (Paperback)
    The unlikely relationship between Kurt Gödel, the most famous logician of the twentieth century, manic and obsessive, and his wife Adele, music-hall dancer, gives rise to a moving love story. How can a couple survive lorsqu'existe there such an imbal
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