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Manil Suri


Born
in Mumbai, India
July 01, 1959

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Literature & Fiction


Manil Suri is a distinguished mathematics professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Author of three acclaimed novels, including The Death of Vishnu, he is a former contributing opinion writer at the New York Times, for which he has written several widely read pieces on mathematics. He lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.

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Good gosh! The second best book of the decade?

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Just received this. Of course, lists are highly subjective, but it did give me a kick to see "The Age of Shiva" so high up. Check out: Best Books of the Decade.
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Average rating: 3.56 · 12,812 ratings · 1,215 reviews · 21 distinct works • Similar authors
The Death of Vishnu
3.62 avg rating — 9,426 ratings — published 1998 — 61 editions
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The Age of Shiva (The Hindu...
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The City of Devi (The Hindu...
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The Big Bang of Numbers: Ho...
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A Room in Bombay: A Memoir
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“What did religion do to people, to provoke such obstinancy, such hysteria - how did it push people to the stage of torturing themselves and killing each other? ”
― Manil Suri, The Death of Vishnu
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“In mathematics, in place of characters, you have variables or unknowns. If I'm trying to plot a theorem, I try to imagine these variables interacting with each other. The boundary of their interaction is the theorem.”
― Manil Suri
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“Endings need to be lived, they cannot be ordained.”
― Manil Suri, The City of Devi
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