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Mandelbrot the Magnificent

By Liz Ziemska
Mandelbrot the Magnificent by Liz Ziemska digital book - Fable

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"Liz Ziemska has fashioned a beautiful story about one famous survivor and the magic and mathematics he’s brought to the world." —Karen Joy Fowler

Mandelbrot the Magnificent
is a stunning, magical pseudo-biography of Benoit Mandelbrot as he flees into deep mathematics to escape the rise of Hitler


Born in Warsaw and growing up in France during the rise of Hitler, Benoit Mandelbrot found escape from the cruelties of the world around him through mathematics. Logic sometimes makes monsters, and Mandelbrot began hunting monsters at an early age. Drawn into the infinite promulgations of formulae, he sinks into secret dimensions and unknown wonders.

His gifts do not make his life easier, however. As the Nazis give up the pretense of puppet government in Vichy France, the jealousy of Mandelbrot’s classmates leads to denunciation and disaster. The young mathematician must save his family with the secret spaces he’s discovered, or his genius will destroy them.

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7 Reviews

3.5
“4☆ — fictionalised account of a very real jewish mathematician, featuring fractal geometry being imbued with magical realism during the period of the holocaust. i really liked this one, i just wished it went on for more !”
“Nothing makes me feel stupid as math. When faced with an abstract mathematical problem my brain simply stops, convinced that it has met an insurmountable obstacle. Of course, there’s little I have more respect for than math and I do kind of think it’s magical. So I felt magically stupid while reading Mandelbrot the Magnificent. This little book is very sweet, smart and it shows that which I believe, but am unable to comprehend - that there is nothing in the natural world that math can’t tackle. As long as it finds a mathematician.”
“Interesting and creative novella/short story. I enjoyed it a lot. A short read that I would recommend to my peers and some of my students. Arc provided by the publisher via Netgalley in exchange of an honest review.”

About Liz Ziemska

LIZ ZIEMSKA is a graduate of the Bennington Writing Seminars. Her work has appeared in Tin House, Interfictions: 2, Strange Horizons, Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, The Pushcart Prize XLI, and has been nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award. She lives in Los Angeles.

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