the last equation of isaac severy by nova jacobs

But first, she must find where the equation is hidden. 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. 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. Fikry in this literary mystery about a struggling bookseller whose recently deceased grandfather, a famed mathematician, left behind a dangerous equation for her to track down-and protect-before others can get their hands on it.

The Family Fang meets The Storied Life of A.J. Susan Posch, The Book Shoppe (IA), Boone, IA No prior understanding of proofs or string theory required!” I found myself reading Jacobs’ debut novel almost compulsively, and I can’t wait to see what she publishes next. “What an odd book, peopled with mathematicians and physicists and ordinary folks, most of whom I didn’t especially like filled with the intrigue of a predictive formula that governments covet but that seems to have gone missing and all centered on a multi-generational family that has its own share of complex issues. Linda Bond, Auntie's Bookstore, Spokane, WA Winter 2018 Reading Group Indie Next List

This inviting mystery allows us to follow along as Hazel makes her way toward the answer, so be prepared to put on your thinking cap and get out your best clue-solving approach - you'll need all the help you can get. But she's not the only one looking for his equation, and some of the other searchers are dangerous indeed.

Except that he has also hidden clues to a hiding place for this final work and shares these clues with his adopted granddaughter, Hazel, who he has charged with finding his hidden treasure and getting it into the hands of a trusted colleague. “Isaac Severy has died and taken the secret of his last mathematical equation with him.

The last equation of isaac severy by nova jacobs