Strange Attractors

A National Jewish Honor Book composed of seven short stories from the author of <i>The Mind-Body Problem</i>. <p/> A mathematician studies the geometry of soap bubbles and responds to the rapture of infatuation by reciting Shakespeare in Yiddish. A group of Olympian intellects is made childlike by the appearance of a double rainbow. Becky Sharp steps out of the pages of <i>Vanity Fair</i> to confound a pretentious philosopher. These are just some of the marvelous and unlikely things that happen in <i>Strange Attractors</i>--a collection of stories that explores the interactions of thought and feeling mind and heart to reveal the deep mysterious ties between seemingly unrelated lives. <p/>A wonderful collection . . . A picture of remarkable depth and complexity.--<i>Los Angeles Times</i> <p/> Electric and compelling . . . Rebecca Goldstein brings a keen and specially informed vision to our world.--<i>Newsday</i> <p/> Rebecca Goldstein again probes the relationships between female intellect and emotion--this time in a sparkling erudite collection in which brilliant women's minds dictate their romantic attachments while their gender continues to dictate their fate.--<i>Kirkus Reviews</i>