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Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture

Author : Apostolos Doxiadis
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 057129569X
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture written by Apostolos Doxiadis and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 148 pages. 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.

Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture

Author : Apostolos K. Doxiadis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN 13 : 9781582340791
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture written by Apostolos K. Doxiadis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. This book was released on 2000-02 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Circles Disturbed

Author : Apostolos Doxiadis
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400842689
Total Pages : 593 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Circles Disturbed written by Apostolos Doxiadis and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-18 with total page 593 pages. 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

Author : Denis Guedj
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1466851678
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Parrot's Theorem written by Denis Guedj and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 356 pages. 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.

The Math Gene

Author : Keith Devlin
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0786725087
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book The Math Gene written by Keith Devlin and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2001-05-17 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is math so hard? And why, despite this difficulty, are some people so good at it? If there's some inborn capacity for mathematical thinking—which there must be, otherwise no one could do it —why can't we all do it well? Keith Devlin has answers to all these difficult questions, and in giving them shows us how mathematical ability evolved, why it's a part of language ability, and how we can make better use of this innate talent.He also offers a breathtakingly new theory of language development—that language evolved in two stages, and its main purpose was not communication—to show that the ability to think mathematically arose out of the same symbol-manipulating ability that was so crucial to the emergence of true language. Why, then, can't we do math as well as we can speak? The answer, says Devlin, is that we can and do—we just don't recognize when we're using mathematical reasoning.

Pythagorean Crimes

Author : Teukros Michaēlidēs
Publisher : Parmenides Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781930972261
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (722 download)

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Download or read book Pythagorean Crimes written by Teukros Michaēlidēs and published by Parmenides Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Wild Numbers

Author : Philibert Schogt
Publisher : Thunder's Mouth Press
ISBN 13 : 9781568581668
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (816 download)

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Download or read book The Wild Numbers written by Philibert Schogt and published by Thunder's Mouth Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 159 pages. 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.

Little Infamies

Author : Panos Karnezis
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312421540
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book Little Infamies written by Panos Karnezis and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a nameless Greek village, the lives of its citizens--the priest, the whore, the doctor, the seamstress, the mayor--and even its animals--a centaur, a parrot that recites Homer, a horse called History--are entwined. As their lives intersect, their hidden crimes, their little infamies, are revealed, in a place full of passion, cruelty, and deep reserves of black humor.

Godel

Author : John L. Casti
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0786747609
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Godel written by John L. Casti and published by . This book was released on 2009-04-21 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kurt Gödel was an intellectual giant. His Incompleteness Theorem turned not only mathematics but also the whole world of science and philosophy on its head. Shattering hopes that logic would, in the end, allow us a complete understanding of the universe, Gödel's theorem also raised many provocative questions: What are the limits of rational thought? Can we ever fully understand the machines we build? Or the inner workings of our own minds? How should mathematicians proceed in the absence of complete certainty about their results? Equally legendary were Gödel's eccentricities, his close friendship with Albert Einstein, and his paranoid fear of germs that eventually led to his death from self-starvation. Now, in the first book for a general audience on this strange and brilliant thinker, John Casti and Werner DePauli bring the legend to life.

Headlong

Author : Michael Frayn
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
ISBN 13 : 146682834X
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Headlong written by Michael Frayn and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2000-09-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Indian Clerk

Author : David Leavitt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1596918403
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (969 download)

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Download or read book The Indian Clerk written by David Leavitt and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-08-10 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the remarkable true story of G. H. Hardy and Srinivasa Ramanujan, and populated with such luminaries such as D. H. Lawrence, Bertrand Russell, and Ludwig Wittgenstein, The Indian Clerk takes this extraordinary slice of history and transforms it into an emotional and spellbinding story about the fragility of human connection and our need to find order in the world. A literary masterpiece, it appeared on four bestseller lists, including the Los Angeles Times, and received dazzling reviews from every major publication in the country.

The Man Who Loved Only Numbers

Author : Paul Hoffman
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0306836564
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book The Man Who Loved Only Numbers written by Paul Hoffman and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A funny, marvelously readable portrait of one of the most brilliant and eccentric men in history." --The Seattle Times Paul Erdos was an amazing and prolific mathematician whose life as a world-wandering numerical nomad was legendary. He published almost 1500 scholarly papers before his death in 1996, and he probably thought more about math problems than anyone in history. Like a traveling salesman offering his thoughts as wares, Erdos would show up on the doorstep of one mathematician or another and announce, "My brain is open." After working through a problem, he'd move on to the next place, the next solution. Hoffman's book, like Sylvia Nasar's biography of John Nash, A Beautiful Mind, reveals a genius's life that transcended the merely quirky. But Erdos's brand of madness was joyful, unlike Nash's despairing schizophrenia. Erdos never tried to dilute his obsessive passion for numbers with ordinary emotional interactions, thus avoiding hurting the people around him, as Nash did. Oliver Sacks writes of Erdos: "A mathematical genius of the first order, Paul Erdos was totally obsessed with his subject--he thought and wrote mathematics for nineteen hours a day until the day he died. He traveled constantly, living out of a plastic bag, and had no interest in food, sex, companionship, art--all that is usually indispensable to a human life." The Man Who Loved Only Numbers is easy to love, despite his strangeness. It's hard not to have affection for someone who referred to children as "epsilons," from the Greek letter used to represent small quantities in mathematics; a man whose epitaph for himself read, "Finally I am becoming stupider no more"; and whose only really necessary tool to do his work was a quiet and open mind. Hoffman, who followed and spoke with Erdos over the last 10 years of his life, introduces us to an undeniably odd, yet pure and joyful, man who loved numbers more than he loved God--whom he referred to as SF, for Supreme Fascist. He was often misunderstood, and he certainly annoyed people sometimes, but Paul Erdos is no doubt missed. --Therese Littleton

Prime Obsession

Author : John Derbyshire
Publisher : Joseph Henry Press
ISBN 13 : 0309141257
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Prime Obsession written by John Derbyshire and published by Joseph Henry Press. This book was released on 2003-04-15 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In August 1859 Bernhard Riemann, a little-known 32-year old mathematician, presented a paper to the Berlin Academy titled: "On the Number of Prime Numbers Less Than a Given Quantity." In the middle of that paper, Riemann made an incidental remark â€" a guess, a hypothesis. What he tossed out to the assembled mathematicians that day has proven to be almost cruelly compelling to countless scholars in the ensuing years. Today, after 150 years of careful research and exhaustive study, the question remains. Is the hypothesis true or false? Riemann's basic inquiry, the primary topic of his paper, concerned a straightforward but nevertheless important matter of arithmetic â€" defining a precise formula to track and identify the occurrence of prime numbers. But it is that incidental remark â€" the Riemann Hypothesis â€" that is the truly astonishing legacy of his 1859 paper. Because Riemann was able to see beyond the pattern of the primes to discern traces of something mysterious and mathematically elegant shrouded in the shadows â€" subtle variations in the distribution of those prime numbers. Brilliant for its clarity, astounding for its potential consequences, the Hypothesis took on enormous importance in mathematics. Indeed, the successful solution to this puzzle would herald a revolution in prime number theory. Proving or disproving it became the greatest challenge of the age. It has become clear that the Riemann Hypothesis, whose resolution seems to hang tantalizingly just beyond our grasp, holds the key to a variety of scientific and mathematical investigations. The making and breaking of modern codes, which depend on the properties of the prime numbers, have roots in the Hypothesis. In a series of extraordinary developments during the 1970s, it emerged that even the physics of the atomic nucleus is connected in ways not yet fully understood to this strange conundrum. Hunting down the solution to the Riemann Hypothesis has become an obsession for many â€" the veritable "great white whale" of mathematical research. Yet despite determined efforts by generations of mathematicians, the Riemann Hypothesis defies resolution. Alternating passages of extraordinarily lucid mathematical exposition with chapters of elegantly composed biography and history, Prime Obsession is a fascinating and fluent account of an epic mathematical mystery that continues to challenge and excite the world. Posited a century and a half ago, the Riemann Hypothesis is an intellectual feast for the cognoscenti and the curious alike. Not just a story of numbers and calculations, Prime Obsession is the engrossing tale of a relentless hunt for an elusive proof â€" and those who have been consumed by it.

Mathematical Cultures

Author : Brendan Larvor
Publisher : Birkhäuser
ISBN 13 : 3319285823
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (192 download)

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Download or read book Mathematical Cultures written by Brendan Larvor and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2016-05-25 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection presents significant contributions from an international network project on mathematical cultures, including essays from leading scholars in the history and philosophy of mathematics and mathematics education. Mathematics has universal standards of validity. Nevertheless, there are local styles in mathematical research and teaching, and great variation in the place of mathematics in the larger cultures that mathematical practitioners belong to. The reflections on mathematical cultures collected in this book are of interest to mathematicians, philosophers, historians, sociologists, cognitive scientists and mathematics educators.

Three Little Pigs: A Novel

Author : Apostolos Doxiadis
Publisher : Canelo
ISBN 13 : 1910859079
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Three Little Pigs: A Novel written by Apostolos Doxiadis and published by Canelo. This book was released on 2016-03-21 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three brothers. One mafia curse. A gripping mafia thriller, at once a suspenseful crime adventure and ingenious fable Ben Frank has blood on his hands. He knows that he has killed a man in a bar-room brawl. He knows that as an Italian immigrant in turn-of-the-century New York, life is tough. But what he doesn’t know is that the victim’s father, a Mafia boss, will settle a curse, a ‘maledizione’, on Frank’s family; that the shoemaker’s three sons will each die in their forty-second year. Following the varying fortunes of the shoemaker’s sons – Al, Nick and Leo Frank – as well as their nemesis, a gangster by the name of ‘Terranova’, Three Little Pigs grows into a dazzling meditation on chance, destiny, choice and their consequences. At once a gripping thriller and an investigation of character and fate, this is a revenge tragedy written by a master at the very peak of his powers. Can the brothers beat the curse? From Apostolos Doxiadis, author of Logicomix, comes a unique and completely absorbing crime novel, sure to appeal to fans of Mario Puzo, Don DeLillo and Carl Hiaasen. ‘Brilliantly entertaining and suspenseful – imagine the Brothers Grimm crossed with Guys and Dolls.’ Bestselling author Tom Holland

Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture

Author : Apóstolos K. Doxiádis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780571203215
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture written by Apóstolos K. Doxiádis and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Onkel Petros' nevø fortæller kærligt den bittersøde historie om onkelens livslange, passionerede arbejde med at føre bevis for matematikeren Goldbachs formodning, at ethvert lige tal er summen af to primtal

Korean Art from 1953: Collision, Innovation and Interaction

Author : Yeon Shim Chung
Publisher : Phaidon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780714878331
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (783 download)

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Download or read book Korean Art from 1953: Collision, Innovation and Interaction written by Yeon Shim Chung and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 2020-03-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive survey to explore the rich and complex history of contemporary Korean art - an incredibly timely topic Starting with the armistice that divided the Korean Peninsula in 1953, this one-of-a-kind book spotlights the artistic movements and collectives that have flourished and evolved throughout Korean culture over the past seven decades - from the 1950s avant-garde through to the feminist scene in the 1970s, the birth of the Gwangju Biennale in the 1990s, the lesser known North Korean art scene, and all the artists who have emerged to secure a place in the international art world.