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A carregar... Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecturepor Apostolos Doxiadis
  
Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro.   ) ten_floors_up | Jul 6, 2020 |  When I directed an astrophysics conference one summer and realised that most of the exciting research was being reported by ambitious young people in their midtwenties, waving their calculations and ideas in the air and scarcely slowing down to acknowledge their predecessors, I would have instantly traded my position for theirs....None of my fragile childhood dreams, my parents' ambitious encouragement, my education at all the best schools, prepared me for this early seniority, this stiffening at age thirty-five. and of maths: https://alittleteaalittlechat.wordpress.com/2016/05/23/uncle-petros-and-goldbach... (  ) bringbackbooks | Jun 16, 2020 | When I directed an astrophysics conference one summer and realised that most of the exciting research was being reported by ambitious young people in their midtwenties, waving their calculations and ideas in the air and scarcely slowing down to acknowledge their predecessors, I would have instantly traded my position for theirs....None of my fragile childhood dreams, my parents' ambitious encouragement, my education at all the best schools, prepared me for this early seniority, this stiffening at age thirty-five. and of maths: https://alittleteaalittlechat.wordpress.com/2016/05/23/uncle-petros-and-goldbach... ( ) bringbackbooks | Jun 16, 2020 | When I directed an astrophysics conference one summer and realised that most of the exciting research was being reported by ambitious young people in their midtwenties, waving their calculations and ideas in the air and scarcely slowing down to acknowledge their predecessors, I would have instantly traded my position for theirs....None of my fragile childhood dreams, my parents' ambitious encouragement, my education at all the best schools, prepared me for this early seniority, this stiffening at age thirty-five. and of maths: https://alittleteaalittlechat.wordpress.com/2016/05/23/uncle-petros-and-goldbach... ( ) bringbackbooks | Jun 16, 2020 | Gareth Southwell is a philosopher, writer and illustrator. Gareth.Southwell | May 23, 2020 | sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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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. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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