At the present time, the average undergraduate mathematics major finds mathematics heavily compartmentalized. After the calculus, he takes a course in analysis and a course in algebra. Depending upon
Twin brothers in early twentieth-century Poland use different means to make their fortunes but face the onrush of industrial revolution, war, and depression, which ulitmately lead them to disaster.
In the Polish city of Lodz, the brothers Ashkenazi grew up very differently in talent and in temperament. Max, the firstborn, is fiercely intelligent and conniving, determined to succeed financially b
