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Doxiadis, Apostolos

Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture

Faber & Faber, 2000

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Year of publication
2000
ISBN
0571202039
Place of printing
London
Author
Doxiadis, Apostolos
Publishers
Faber & Faber
Edition
1st Pbk Edition
Keyword
Mathematics Goldbach's Conjecture
Cover description
New
Binding description
S
Dust jacket
Yes
State of preservation
New
Binding
Softcover
Inscribed
No
First edition
Yes

Description

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 Gˆdel. 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. 209p.Original wraps plus dust jacket