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GS Chandy
An outstanding piece of literature - as a piece of fiction per se; as something that could help us understand (to some little extent, at least) the emotional and thought processes that drive geniuses.
This story, which I first read when I was about 14 years old was, along with E.T. Bell's "Men of Mathematics", what 'turned me on' to math in a big way. Though math is what I'd consider a 'main theme' in the story, there is not a great deal of *mathematics* within it except for a brief discussion of Pythagoras' Theorem. Anyone can read it and understand it, without math.
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