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Catherine Shaw (1) (1961–)

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Informazioni generali

Nome legale
Schneps, Leila
Data di nascita
1961-12-22
Sesso
female
Nazionalità
USA
Luogo di nascita
Waltham, Massachusetts, USA
Luogo di residenza
Paris, France
Istruzione
Radcliffe College (B.A.|1983)
Université Paris-Sud XI-Orsay
Attività lavorative
mathematician
author
crime writer
translator
Organizzazioni
Centre national de la recherche scientifique
Breve biografia
Catherine Shaw is the pen name of Leila Schneps, born in Waltham, Massachusetts. She earned a B.A. in mathematics, German language and literature from Radcliffe College/Harvard University in 1983, then went to France for post-graduate studies. She completed a doctorat de troisième cycle in mathematics at Université Paris-Sud XI-Orsay in 1985 and earned a Ph.D. in mathematics in 1990. In 1991, she was awarded a tenured research position at CNRS, the French National Centre for Scientific Research, and is based at the Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu of Pierre and Marie Curie University, where she specializes in number theory. During the late 1990s, she also had short-term visiting researcher assignments at Harvard University, Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, and MSRI at Berkeley. In addition to her academic publications, including several textbooks on mathematics, she has written articles and a popular book on the use and abuse of mathematics in criminal proceedings, Math on Trial: How Numbers Get Used and Abused in the Courtroom, co-authored with her daughter Coralie Colmez, also a mathematician. She also has produced English-language translations of several French-language books and papers. Under the pseudonym Catherine Shaw, she writes mathematically-themed historical murder mysteries, beginning with The Three Body Problem (2004).

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Cambridge, 1888. Tres profesores de la universidad han sido asesindos misteriosamente cuando investigaban el problema de los tres cuerpos, un enigma matemático que Sir isaac Newton fue el primero en plantear. Vanessa Duncan es una joven institutriz que ha empezado a trabajar recientemente en la ciudad universitaria como maestra de niñas. Gracias a las familias para las que trabaja, tiene la oportunidad de relacionarse con las más privilegiadas mentes matemáticas de la prestigiosa universidad. Además, el momento no podría ser más emocionante: todos se hallan inmersos en la investigación del problema de los tres cuerpos. El rey Óscar de Suecua ha decidido que para su 60 aniversario concederá un sustancial premio a aquel matemático que consiga resolver el problema, que fue planteado por vez primera por Isaac Newton. Sin embargo, todo da un giro inesperado cuando el profesor adjunto de matemáticas, Akers, es encontrado muerto en sus habitaciones de un violento golpe en la nuca y el enamorado de la srta Duncan, otro matemático llamado Weatherburn, es acusado del crimen.… (altro)
 
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Natt90 | 4 altre recensioni | Feb 17, 2023 |
Sadly, telling the story through the device of letters written home results in a style that is just too artificial and far-fetched. The "letters" contain lots of history and explanation for the reader which does not help their authenticity. It should be noted that the background to this story is true, but the book can't really be recommended, as other reviewers have commented.
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Stroudley | 4 altre recensioni | Apr 24, 2015 |
What a muddle of a book! Inconsistencies, incongruities, improbabilities abound. Enormous leaps of logic made on suspicion alone, and what is with the possible love interest introduced in the last two chapters? Spoiler: Why does our scatterbrained detective not even speak with the villain until the very last pages of the book? Two stars only because I finished it anyway.
 
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paeonia | Sep 8, 2014 |
I did something I rarely do with this book - I gave up reading it halfway through. I don't know if it was the novel's format of letters written to a twin sister, the earnest discussion of mathematical theories, the rigid adherence to Victorian era standards of behaviour, the precision of the language or just me but I was bored and restless as I read and never able to immerse myself in Vanessa's world.
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flusteredduck | 4 altre recensioni | Feb 20, 2014 |

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Opere
6
Utenti
330
Popolarità
#71,937
Voto
3.2
Recensioni
10
ISBN
59
Lingue
1

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