Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture write by Apostolos Doxiadis. This book was released on 2012-11-15. Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Pythagorean Crimes
Pythagorean Crimes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pythagorean Crimes write by Tefcros Michaelides. This book was released on 2008. Pythagorean Crimes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At the root of this historically based work of fiction lies the question as to whether the solution to a mathematical problem could inspire such passion, so intense and perilous, as to drive someone to murder.
The Math Gene
The Math Gene - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Math Gene write by Keith Devlin. This book was released on 2001-05-17. The Math Gene available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. If people are endowed with a "number instinct" similar to the "language instinct" -- as recent research suggests -- then why can't everyone do math? In The Math Gene, mathematician and popular writer Keith Devlin attacks both sides of this question. Devlin offers a breathtakingly new theory of language development that describes how language evolved in two stages and how its main purpose was not communication. Devlin goes on to show that the ability to think mathematically arose out of the same symbol-manipulating ability that was so crucial to the very first emergence of true language. Why, then, can't we do math as well as we speak? The answer, says Devlin, is that we can and do -- we just don't recognize when we're using mathematical reasoning.
Headlong
Headlong - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Headlong write by Michael Frayn. This book was released on 2000-09-01. Headlong available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An unlikely con man wagers wife, wealth, and sanity in pursuit of an elusive Old Master. Invited to dinner by the boorish local landowner, Martin Clay, an easily distracted philosopher, and his art-historian wife are asked to assess three dusty paintings blocking the draught from the chimney. But hiding beneath the soot is nothing less-Martin believes-than a lost work by Bruegel. So begins a hilarious trail of lies and concealments, desperate schemes and soaring hopes as Martin, betting all that he owns and much that he doesn't, embarks on a quest to prove his hunch, win his wife over, and separate the painting from its owner. In Headlong, Michael Frayn, "the master of what is seriously funny" (Anthony Burgess), offers a procession of superbly realized characters, from the country squire gone to seed to his giddy, oversexed young wife. All are burdened by human muddle and human cravings; all are searching for a moral compass as they grapple with greed, folly, and desire. And at the heart of the clamor is Breugel's vision, its dark tones warning of the real risks of temptation and obsession. With this new novel, Michael Frayn has given us entertainment of the highest order. Supremely wise and wickedly funny, Headlong elevates Frayn into the front rank of contemporary novelists.
Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture
Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture write by Apostolos K. Doxiadis. This book was released on 2000-02. Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
