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Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture

2012-11-15 Fiction
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Release : 2012-11-15
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Book Synopsis Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture by : Apostolos Doxiadis

Download or read book Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture written by Apostolos Doxiadis. This book was released on 2012-11-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Circles Disturbed

2012-03-18 Mathematics
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Release : 2012-03-18
Genre : Mathematics
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Book Rating : 689/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Circles Disturbed by : Apostolos Doxiadis

Download or read book Circles Disturbed written by Apostolos Doxiadis. This book was released on 2012-03-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why narrative is essential to mathematics Circles Disturbed brings together important thinkers in mathematics, history, and philosophy to explore the relationship between mathematics and narrative. The book's title recalls the last words of the great Greek mathematician Archimedes before he was slain by a Roman soldier—"Don't disturb my circles"—words that seem to refer to two radically different concerns: that of the practical person living in the concrete world of reality, and that of the theoretician lost in a world of abstraction. Stories and theorems are, in a sense, the natural languages of these two worlds—stories representing the way we act and interact, and theorems giving us pure thought, distilled from the hustle and bustle of reality. Yet, though the voices of stories and theorems seem totally different, they share profound connections and similarities. A book unlike any other, Circles Disturbed delves into topics such as the way in which historical and biographical narratives shape our understanding of mathematics and mathematicians, the development of "myths of origins" in mathematics, the structure and importance of mathematical dreams, the role of storytelling in the formation of mathematical intuitions, the ways mathematics helps us organize the way we think about narrative structure, and much more. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Amir Alexander, David Corfield, Peter Galison, Timothy Gowers, Michael Harris, David Herman, Federica La Nave, G.E.R. Lloyd, Uri Margolin, Colin McLarty, Jan Christoph Meister, Arkady Plotnitsky, and Bernard Teissier.

The Parrot's Theorem

2013-08-20 Fiction
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Release : 2013-08-20
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 678/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Parrot's Theorem by : Denis Guedj

Download or read book The Parrot's Theorem written by Denis Guedj. This book was released on 2013-08-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr. Ruche, a Parisian bookseller, receives a bequest from a long lost friend in the Amazon of a vast library of math books, which propels him into a great exploration of the story of mathematics. Meanwhile Max, whose family lives with Mr. Ruche, takes in a voluble parrot who will discuss math with anyone. When Mr. Ruche learns of his friend's mysterious death in a Brazilian rainforest, he decides that with the parrot's help he will use these books to teach Max and his brother and sister the mysteries of Euclid's Elements, Pythagoras's Theorem and the countless other mathematical wonders. But soon it becomes clear that Mr. Ruche has inherited the library for reasons other than enlightenment, and before he knows it the household is racing to prevent the parrot and vital, new theorems from falling into the wrong hands. An immediate bestseller when first published in France, The Parrot's Theorem charmingly combines a straightforward history of mathematics and a first-rate murder mystery.

Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture

2000-02
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Release : 2000-02
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Book Synopsis Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture by : Apostolos K. Doxiadis

Download or read book Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture written by Apostolos K. Doxiadis. This book was released on 2000-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Wild Numbers

2000 Fiction
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Release : 2000
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 668/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Wild Numbers by : Philibert Schogt

Download or read book The Wild Numbers written by Philibert Schogt. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a mediocre mathematician solves a puzzle that has vexed savants for centuries, his moment of glory is spoiled by accusations that the solution did not originate with him. Original.

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