Liz Ziemska's Mandelbrot the Magnificent
Interesting novella based on the real life of the titular mathematician (who named fractals), centering on his teen years as a Jew in France during WWII. There is a little hint of the fantastic/magical realism/mysticism but this is mainly rooted in history….and a lot of math. I was definitely caught up in the story but it didn’t one hundred percent work for me. I think this is one of the novellas where I wanted just a little bit more, or maybe that it’s that I found it mildly unsettling? A-/B+.
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