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25%OFFApostolos Doxiadis - Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture - 9780571205110 - V9780571205110
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Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture

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Description for Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture Paperback. Uncle Petros is a family joke - an ageing recluse in a suburb of Athens, playing chess and gardening. His young nephew soon discovers his uncle was once a celebrated mathematician who staked all on solving the problem of Goldbach's Conjecture. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 184.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571205110
SKU
V9780571205110
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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-10

About Apostolos Doxiadis
Apostolos Doxiadis was born in Australia in 1953 and grew up in Athens. He was admitted to New York's Columbia University at the age of fifteen after submitting an original paper to the Department of Mathematics, and did postgraduate work at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris.$$$Apart from writing, Doxiadis has made films, winning the International Center ... Read more

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