Books: “The Housekeeper and the Professor” by Yoko Ogawa

“The Housekeeper and the Professor” is a story of love, in all forms of its iteration. The love of mathematics and the beauty that lies in the wonder of numbers. The love of baseball, its sweat and tears. The love between a mother and son. The uninvited love between a wife and her husband’s brother. And the love between an unlikely pair: a professor who after a car crash has a memory that lasts only 80 minutes, and a fatherless boy.


“Eternal truths are ultimately invisible, and you won’t find them in material things or natural phenomena, or even in human emotions. Mathematics, however, can illuminate them, can give them expression – in fact, nothing can prevent it from doing so.”

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