![]() ![]() Like other children her age, she ignores the droning of adults saying things that she finds uninteresting, but what she does find interesting is unusual. ![]() She notices quantities of things (cars in a car park) and estimates the measure of angles in the world around her (the cars again, or a trimmed hedge). In those chapters written from Tanzie's point of view, we learn a lot about how she thinks. However, more importantly for this Website, the mathematical nature of the title is inspired by Jess' eight year old daughter, Tanzie, whose mathematical ability has earned her a scholarship from a prestigious private school. The title presumably primarily refers to the couple in the romance: Jess (a single mom struggling to make ends meet by working as a cleaning woman) and Ed (a well-off client of hers, facing charges for insider trading). A list compiled by Alex Kasman ( College of Charleston) ![]()
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