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In the tradition of Fermat's Last Theorem and Einstein's Dreams , 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
- Langue
- Année de publication
- 2000
- Reliure
- (rigide),
- État du livre
- Bon
- Prix
- 6,09 €
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- Titre
- Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Apostolos Doxiadīs, Bill Carlo
- Éditeur
- Bloomsbury USA
- Publié
- 2000
- Format
- rigide
- Pages
- 208
- ISBN10
- 1582340676
- ISBN13
- 9781582340678
- Séries
- Catégories
- Mots clés
- Polars, Grèce, Littérature grecque, Grec
- Description
- In the tradition of Fermat's Last Theorem and Einstein's Dreams , 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.