new pynchon novel

[hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi]

Y I I I P P P E E E!  Saved my day, or, better, month.

Srinandan Dasmahapatra wrote:
> Hmm, I wonder if that\'s Sonya Kovaleskaya.  
<interesting points snipped>

However: she only could belong to the Hilbert circle
anacronistically, since she died four years before
Hilbert moved to Goettingen from the Kantian 
Koenigsberg. But she would make a great haunting 
presence indeed.

One of Hilbert\'s colleagues was the Czech-Jewish Olga 
Taussky (late T.-Todd), who fled Germany in 1933. 
Another Jewish-female-mathematician-refugee close to 
Hilbert was Emmy Noether from Bavaria.

I admit: just got to know of all these from an index of 
female mathematicians: 
www-history.mcs.stand.ac.uk/history/Indexes/Women.html

Yet I feel that the character will be neither directly 
nor indirectly any of those mentioned above but more or 
less \"fictional\" instead.


Heikki