Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture
Apostolos Doxiadis
224 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0571205119
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Language: English
Publish: January 1, 2001
20th CenturyContemporaryFictionGreeceLiteratureMathematicsMysteryNovelsPhilosophyPopular Science
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.