Hypatia's Simultaneous Equations: Tuesday April 8, 1986

Alexandra Harris' journey from savant to survivor, through love and loss, obsession and vindication. Her story is a love story with many faces: forbidden, unrequited, unconditional and everlasting. Alexandra is a freak of nature who can understand the most intricate workings of the universe but can not fathom the nature of human interaction. But she becomes the one person who can explain to all of us what holds us together.