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Uncle Petros & Goldbach's Conjecture Book
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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, but suddenly disappears into a solitary existence playing chess in the Greek countryside.
To his nephew, he is known as the solitary, eccentric Uncle Petros, but when the young man finds out that his uncle is an esteemed professor of mathematics, he searches out his uncle's hidden past. Through an adversarial friendship based on chess and mathematics, he drives the retired 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.
Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture is an intellectual adventure, a story of proud genius and the exhilaration of pure mathematics. It is about the search for truth at all costs, and the heavy price of finding it.
- 1582340676
- 9781582340678
- Apostolos K. Doxiadis
- 29 February 2000
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Hardcover (Book)
- 208
- illustrated edition
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