A twenty-year-old doctoral candidate in mathematics checks herself into a psychiatric hospice in Black River Falls, Wisconsin, in 1972 carrying forty thousand dollars in cash, and her recorded sessions with a psychiatrist range across grief for her dead father and brother, her plans to disappear into the Romanian mountains, and long dialogues on Gödel, Spengler, and the foundations of mathematics.
Books mentioned in Stella Maris (3)
The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler: “We got to talking about math and he told me that what first got him interested in the subject was the second chapter of Spengler's Decline of the West.”
Bhagavad Gita: “And supposedly Oppenheimer quoted from the Bhagavad Gita but I think the Sanskrit word for Time came out Death or maybe the other way around.”