Ratner's Star
438 pages
|Published: 1 Jan 1976
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This edition
ISBN: 9780099928409
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Vintage
Publication date: 1 January 2009
Description
Billy Twillig has won the first Nobel Prize ever to be given in mathematics. Set in the near future, this book charts an innocent's education when Billy is sent to live in the company of 30 Nobel laureates and he is asked to decipher transmissions from outer space.