C M Kornbluth's "Gomez" (novelette, humor): Tale of a variant of Shrinivasa Ramanujan

Sometimes hilarious story of how the US nuclear weapons establishment found & grabbed the teenage theoretical physics genius Julio Gomez (of an impoverished background), & how the young man won back his freedom.

Collected in.

1. David Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer (Ed)'s "The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF".

Fact sheet.

First published: C M Kornbluth's "The Explorers" (1954) (coll).
Rating: A.
Related: Stories of C M Kornbluth.