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(RNS) A famous atheist who harbors a secret soul. A 6-year-old Hasidic mathematical genius. A pompous and increasingly loony college professor with delusions of divine grandeur. These are the characters that populate Rebecca Newberger Goldstein's recent novel, "36 Argume...