Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture: A Novel of Mathematical Obsession
of Apostolos Doxiadis, Απόστολος Δοξιάδης
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In this critically acclaimed international bestseller, Petros Papachristos, a mathematical prodigy, has devoted much 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. His feverish and singular pursuit of this goal has come to define his life. Now an old man, he is looked on with suspicion and shame by his family-until his ambitious young nephew intervenes.Seeking to understand his uncle's mysterious mind, the narrator of this novel unravels his story, a dramatic tale set against a tableau of brilliant historical figures-among them G. H. Hardy, the self-taught Indian genius Srinivasa Ramanujan, and a young Kurt Gödel. Meanwhile, as Petros recounts his own life's work, a bond is formed between uncle and nephew, pulling each one deeper into mathematical obsession, and risking both of their sanity.
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- Format Paperback
- Pages 209 pages
- Publisher Bloomsbury USA
- Publication Date February 3rd 2001
- First Publication 10/29/92
- Language English
- ISBN 9781582341286
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
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