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Before his decline, Robert was a professor of mathematics at the University of Chicago, and famous for some ground-breaking theoretical work in his youth.

In later years, math merged with delusion and his genius was submerged in madness.

Robert's daughter Catherine, just starting out in higher mathematics, drops her schooling to keep her father safely at home, but the strain of caring for him leaves little energy for mathematical theorizing.

When he finally dies, she is both relieved and bereft, and not at all sure what to do with her life.

Since Catherine has put her own life - and talent for mathematics - on hold while trying to keep Robert stable, she now has to make some major decisions.

At 25, she is a bit old to enter the competitive field of higher mathematics, where innovations are notoriously associated with youth and masculinity.

Her practical sister, Claire, mindful of the isolation and worry her sister has experienced, wants to take Catherine back to New York and launch her in a rewarding career, as well as provide some healing therapy.

Hal, a former student of Robert's, hangs around the house hoping something might be salvaged from Robert's copious but confused notes.

Soon he begins to want to salvage his daughter, too.

Catherine, however, has some surprises of her own.

She is not about to give up her own creative talents - even if it means ending up like her father.

Though shell-shocked from her long isolation taking care of her father and grie...

...ba href=/dementia/a/b and is in unstable medical condition."In late February Taylor's granddaughter, Leslie Shelton of Wyoming, challenged the arrangement, claiming Taylor told her she was unhappy with it and wanted to find out when she could go home.Spohn agreed Mar.

17 to allow the court to appoint Charles Morse as Taylor's attorney.

Morse later filed court papers stating his belief Spohn's representation of both Taylor and Koon was a violation of ethics rules.

At the Mar.

17 court hearing, Spohn said he had a signed waiver from Taylor.

No such document has been filed with the court.No medical report has been filed with the court, either, but feuding family members believe Taylor has some form of ba href=/dementia/a/b, a cognitive disability that can affect seniors.During the conservatorship, Koon filed papers to block other family members from transferring Taylor, visiting with her or discussing her conservatorship.According to Elizabeth Mautner, Program coordinator for the Napa County Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program - a watchdog for the rights of residents of assisted living and nursing homes - assisted living residents should be allowed to speak and visit with whomever they please as part of their basic civil rights."We advocate all the time for people to be able to visit with family and friends," she said.Morse learned nearly a month into Taylor's conservatorship that she did not wish to stay at the assisted living home and she felt Spohn's representation of both her and Koon was a bad idea.I...