A review by gengelcox
Proof by Induction by José Pablo Iriarte

challenging medium-paced

3.5

For me, the math in this story got in the way, but that’s likely because I’m not a math person. The idea of a static copy of someone’s brain could still “think” and provide input is unique, though, and Iriarte compounds that with a father-son relationship that’s strained to provide an emotional context to the story. I think there’s more to the idea of induction, which is never defined in the story, per se, but is alluded to in the idea at the end that if the son inherited math skills from the father, than his daughter likely inherited those same skills, but the flip side of that would be to imply that the son would be as bad a father as the father and that’s not the case, as the son is able to learn from the mistakes he perceived in his father.