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Tôi đã đọc cuốn sách này khi tôi trẻ hơn bây giờ rất nhiều, với một tình yêu toán học, dù đã phai nhoà đi bớt, nhưng vẫn gọi là si mê, so với những mối tình cảm, với người và vật và những thứ còn lại của thế giới này, từ trước tới giờ. Nói vậy để hiểu là tôi đọc Giáo sư và Công thức toán với một đầu óc lý tính đến tội nghiệp, ý tôi là mình đã có thể yêu thích, tận hưởng cuốn sách nhiều hơn nếu tôi đọc nó như là một cuốn tiểu thuyết nhân tình thế thái, bởi lẽ sau khi đọc xong, tôi thấy mình thất
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This is a charming, gentle read about a housekeeper and her son caring for a mathematics teacher who has been in an accident, and can only remember the last 80 minutes of his life since 1975, when the accident occurred. The professor talks constantly about math and curiosities about certain numbers, particularly primes, and they start solving math puzzles and questions that he sets to them, growing to love math themselves. Some of the math questions and conundrums were already known to me, and o
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Yoko Ogawas novel "The Housekeeper + The Professor" tells the story of a woman coming to care for an elderly mathematics professor suffering from short-term memory loss.
While she has to introduce herself again every morning, she soons forms an attachment, based on him teaching her about numbers and her seeing his brilliance.
When she mentions her son, the Professor's love for children shines through and he expects her to bring him around after school or during vacations.
The love the professor h ...more
While she has to introduce herself again every morning, she soons forms an attachment, based on him teaching her about numbers and her seeing his brilliance.
When she mentions her son, the Professor's love for children shines through and he expects her to bring him around after school or during vacations.
The love the professor h ...more
A quick read about numbers, baseball, families, and memories.
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