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In the tradition of <i>Fermat's Last Theorem</i> and <i>Einstein's Dreams</i>, a novel about mathematical obsession. Petros Papachristos devotes the early part of his life trying to prove one of the greatest mathematical challenges of all time: Goldbach's Conjecture, the deceptively simple claim that every even number greater than two is the sum of two primes. Against a tableau of famous historical figures-among them G.H. Hardy, the self-taught Indian genius Srinivasa Ramanujan, and a young Kurt Godel-Petros works furiously to prove the notoriously difficult conjecture. Decades later, his ambitious young nephew drives the defeated mathematician back into the hunt to prove Goldbach's Conjecture. . . but at the cost of the old man's sanity, and perhaps even his life.
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Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture, Apostolos Doxiadīs, Bill Carlo
- Lingua
- Pubblicato
- 2000
- Rilegatura
- (Copertina rigida),
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- Titolo
- Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Apostolos Doxiadīs, Bill Carlo
- Editore
- Bloomsbury USA
- Pubblicato
- 2000
- Formato
- Copertina rigida
- Pagine
- 208
- ISBN10
- 1582340676
- ISBN13
- 9781582340678
- Serie
- Tag
- Gialli, Grecia, Letteratura greca, Greco
- Descrizione
- In the tradition of <i>Fermat's Last Theorem</i> and <i>Einstein's Dreams</i>, a novel about mathematical obsession. Petros Papachristos devotes the early part of his life trying to prove one of the greatest mathematical challenges of all time: Goldbach's Conjecture, the deceptively simple claim that every even number greater than two is the sum of two primes. Against a tableau of famous historical figures-among them G.H. Hardy, the self-taught Indian genius Srinivasa Ramanujan, and a young Kurt Godel-Petros works furiously to prove the notoriously difficult conjecture. Decades later, his ambitious young nephew drives the defeated mathematician back into the hunt to prove Goldbach's Conjecture. . . but at the cost of the old man's sanity, and perhaps even his life.