About the book: 2010 / Igor Duel is a famous writer and an experienced sailor. Crossed three oceans, worked as a sailor, first mate. And over the same years, he published sixteen books, worked in the “New World”... Of course, I remember the wonderful prose writer-sailor Viktor Konetsky with his ship stories. But Igor Duel has his own experience and his own path in literature. The hero of the novel “Vest of Mathematics,” a talented scientist Yuri Bulavin, strives to “not live by a lie.” But reality constantly tries to force him to change this principle. While Yuri is working at a scientific institute, his idea is appropriated by a high-ranking scientific businessman. Fate brings Bulavin as a sailor on a small river boat, and he again encounters cynicism and lies. The novel tells about the trials that befell Yuri, about his defeats and victories in work and in love..