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Original Title:	Ο θείος Πέτρος και η Εικασία του Γκόλντμπαχ
ISBN:	1582341281 (ISBN13: 9781582341286)
Edition Language:	English

Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture: A Novel of Mathematical Obsession Paperback | Pages: 209 pages

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Title	:	Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture: A Novel of Mathematical Obsession
Author	:	Apostolos K. Doxiadis
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 209 pages
Published	:	February 3rd 2001 by Bloomsbury USA (first published 1992)
Categories	:	Fiction. Science. Mathematics. Literature. Novels. Cultural. Greece. Mystery. Philosophy

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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 Gödel. 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.

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I'm an English teacher and librarian, and although I took math classes all through high school and did well enough in college, I have never considered myself a math person. It's not that I don't understand concepts; it's more that math has never touched my soul the way that reading has. I remember very little of all the equations I learned in school, and I feel awful that I cannot help students with their math problems at school. I am always telling myself I need to take a refresher course or

Apparently maths can be fun. Not something I ever really appreciated as a child. Mostly maths was a lesson in which eye contact was to be avoided, a) to limit the chances of being called upon to make any kind of answer regarding anything even vaguely numeric and b) because the maths teacher was kind of creepily weird. This book is what I'd regard as one of the more unconventional additions to the 1001 books list and I really enjoyed learning about the maths as well as Uncle Petros' life story.

This is a short book--a fast and easy read. The story describes how a good mathematician sank into an obsession that swallowed up his life. The storyteller's mathematician friend, Sammy, mentions that the trail of a mathematical quest will be littered with intermediate, published results on a variety of topics. So, why didn't Uncle Petros publish his intermediate--but important--results? Interestingly, I do not remember another novel with as many footnotes as this one! (Actually, I don't

What stayed with me, long after I had read A Sense of the Mysterious: Science and the Human Spirit by Alan Lightman, was the tone of regret, that powerful, haunting emotion. He writes of his own regrets in discovering in his thirties that his chosen life was over. He was a physicist, he no longer had any expectation of doing anything that mattered.When I directed an astrophysics conference one summer and realised that most of the exciting research was being reported by ambitious young people in

The title of the book enticed me. I am a sucker for themes that involve math stories. In some way I feel i am redeeming myself for not studying math well enough in my school days.This is a very interesting story of a "could have been great" mathematician Petros Papachristos. He took on an very tough old math problem of the Goldbach Conjecture and attempted to solve it to achieve fame - and thereby win back his first and only girlfriend Isolde.The story is set in the time of G H HArdy and

I really enjoyed this novel. It's mathematical without being overly specific and tedious, which makes it a great read for many people and not just those who appreciate math. This story was very cleverly written. You never know the name of the narrator, which seems kind of strange but works really well. It also blends in mathematical history very well, including many well known mathematicians. This is a very fast read and very enjoyable.

Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture tells the story of a brilliant mathematician obsessed with proving Goldbach's Conjecture (as reformulated by Euler: every even number greater than two is the sum of two primes). Despite the seemingly difficult mathematical subject, the book is a quick and easy read. This is a testament to the clear and simple prose of the author, himself a mathematician by training. While math is the main focus of the book, an underlying theme is the question of how and why