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Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture Hardcover - 2000

by Doxiadis, Apostolos


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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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  • Title Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture
  • Author Doxiadis, Apostolos
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition [ Edition: repri
  • Pages 209
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Bloomsbury USA, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 2000
  • ISBN 9781582340678

About the author

Apostolos Doxiadis received a Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics from Columbia University in New York and a Master's Degree in Applied Mathematics from the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris. He lives in Athens, Greece.

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