Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture

  • en
  • Broché
  • 9780571205110
  • 05 mars 2001
  • 224 pages
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Résumé

Uncle Petros is a family joke. An ageing recluse, he lives alone in a suburb of Athens, playing chess and tending to his garden. If you didn't know better, you'd surely think he was one of life's failures. But his young nephew suspects otherwise. For Uncle Petros, he discovers, was once a celebrated mathematician, brilliant and foolhardy enough to stake everything on solving a problem that had defied all attempts at proof for nearly three centuries - Goldbach's Conjecture. His quest brings him into contact with some of the century's greatest mathematicians, including the Indian prodigy Ramanujan and the young Alan Turing. But his struggle is lonely and single-minded, and by the end it has apparently destroyed his life. Until that is a final encounter with his nephew opens up to Petros, once more, the deep mysterious beauty of mathematics. Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture is an inspiring novel of intellectual adventure, proud genius, the exhilaration of pure mathematics - and the rivalry and antagonism which torment those who pursue impossible goals.

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Contenu

Langue
en
Binding
Broché
Date de sortie initiale
05 mars 2001
Nombre de pages
224
Illustrations
Non

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Auteur principal
Apostolas Doxiadis
Editeur principal
FABE

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Hauteur de l'emballage
20 mm
Hauteur du produit
14 mm
Largeur d'emballage
124 mm
Largeur du produit
130 mm
Livre d‘étude
Non
Longueur d'emballage
197 mm
Longueur du produit
199 mm
Poids de l'emballage
406 g
Édition
Principale

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EAN
9780571205110

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