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41) Cliff walk
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
English
Description
Escaping a torturous childhood, Crelly develops her acting talent and marries a wealthy mathmatician. The two are haunted by twisted characters from Crelly's past.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
A man in England learns he is the father of a mathematical genius who is lying comatose after an insulin overdose. When he discovers the overdose was not an accident, David Venning takes it on himself to unmask the people responsible. He uncovers a conspiracy to silence scientists who worked on a new mathematical theory. A novel of mathematics.
43) No regrets
Author
Publisher
Warner Forever
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
A mathematician with a talent for cryptography, Noelle Blanche is rescued from a violent attack by David Wolfe, a former Delta Force operative, who returns to his former job after the reappearance of the Swarm, a savage group of terrorists, and who hopes to persuade Noelle to help his team locate a cache of missing nuclear weapons before they can fall into the wrong hands.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An electrifying thriller that opens with Alan Turing's suicide, and then opens out to take in a young detective's awakening to painful secrets about his own life and the life of his country. It's 1954. Several English nationals have defected to the USSR, while a witch-hunt for homosexuals rages across Britain. In these circumstances, no one is surprised when a mathematician by the name of Alan Turing, is found dead in his home: it is widely assumed...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Julius Miles is a mathematical genius, but he is hefty of frame, awkward with the opposite sex and struggling to bring his existence into balance. When he stumbles across the girl next door naked and dead on her Victorian tiles, he starts to unravel the one equation that's eluded him: that of his own life. And so it is that with the most unlikely of assistants - a transsexual Cupid with a penchant for drugs - he embarks on a quest to find the truth...
48) The friend zone
Author
Publisher
Montlake Romance
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Disgraced college quarterback Logan Hunt was on his way to NFL stardom when he messed up big-time. Now the Texas star player with a bad temper has a new option: Seattle's End of the Line college. If he can follow the strict rules, he could get his career back, but then he falls for the coach's daughter."--Provided by publisher.
49) The keeper's six
Author
Publisher
Tordotcom, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Kate Elliott's action-packed The Keeper's Six features a world-hopping, bad-ass, spell-slinging mother who sets out to rescue her kidnapped son from a dragon lord with everything to lose. There are terrors that dwell in the space between worlds. It's been a year since Esther set foot in the Beyond, the alien landscape stretching between worlds, crossing boundaries of space and time. She and her magical traveling party-her Hex-haven't spoken since...
50) Prodigies
Author
Publisher
Five Star, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In the mid-1870s, Daniel McCormack, a street urchin in New York's dangerous Five Points district, attracts the attention of a criminal gang with his astounding hand-eye co-ordination. Elsewhere, Lincoln Henry, a Tennessee-born child of ex-slaves, turns heads with his gift for geometry and mathematics, and Lily Mandeville, an orphan working with a traveling circus, discovers her talent for talking with dogs. Daniel's gang and Lily's circus travel...
Author
Series
Kiss quotient ; 1
Publisher
Ediciones Urano
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
"Stella Lane cree que las matemáticas son lo único que funciona en el universo. Utiliza algoritmos para predecir compras, un trabajo que le ha proporcionado más dinero del que sabe gastar y menos experiencia en el apartado de las citas que la media de cualquier treintañera. No le ayuda tener Asperger y que besar le recuerde a un pez piloto limpiando los dientes de un tiburón. Por eso contrata al despampanante gigoló Michael Phan. Mitad sueco,...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Lady Daphne Forsyth is a brilliant mathematician with a burning passion for puzzles. When she learns that the library belonging to her benefactress houses the legendary Cameron Cipher--an encrypted message that, once solved, holds the key to great riches--Daphne is on the case. Unfortunately, her race to unlock the cipher's code is continually thwarted by a deliciously handsome distraction she hadn't counted on...and cannot resist. Dalton Beauchamp,...
53) Manifold: time
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Pub. Group
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Hailed by Arthur C. Clarke as "a major new talent, " Stephen Baxter is one of the most gifted writers to appear in the last decade. His stunning novels combine state-of-the-art scientific speculation with nonstop adventure on a cosmic scale, continuing the grand tradition of science fiction pioneered by such giants as Isaac Asimov and Robert E. Heinlein.
Now the multi-award -- winning author gives us his most ambitious and accomplished novel yet....
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Just days after mathematician and family patriarch Isaac Severy dies of an apparent suicide, his adopted granddaughter Hazel, owner of a struggling Seattle bookstore, receives a letter from him by mail. In it, Isaac alludes to a secretive organization that is after his final bombshell equation, and he charges Hazel with safely delivering it to a trusted colleague. But first, she must find where the equation is hidden. While in Los Angeles for Isaac's...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Determined to conquer the Riemann hypothesis despite cultural discrimination against women intellectuals, a genius mathematician uncovers a mysterious theorem's unexpected World War II link to her family." --
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