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BOOK REVIEW Edited by David E. Balk

A poetry of grief

A review of The Geometry of Grief: Reflections on Mathematics, Loss, and Life, by Michael Frame. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2021a. 200 pp. (ISBN 978-0-226-80092-9). $20.00. Reviewed by Benjamin W. Bellet.

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