A stunning first novel, set during the violent 1947 partition of India, about uprooted children and their journeys to safety As India is rent into two nations,

Provides a wide ranging introduction to partitions, accessible to any reader familiar with polynomials and infinite series.

Partition--the physical division of territory along ethno-religious lines into separate nation-states--is often presented as a successful political "solution" t

The need for optimal partition arises from many real-world problems involving the distribution of limited resources to many users. The clustering problem, which