Uncle Petros and the Goldbach"s problem: A Mathematical-Artistic Worldwide Bestseller
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Before the reader is an amazing book translated into all the main languages of the world and has become the world intellectual bestseller. She tells about the history of one mathematician, Petros Papaharistos, who remained to the end of the faithful great idea of knowing the truth, which all his life has devoted his whole life to the search for a solution to a single scientific problem, which was beyond the power of the great minds of the past. This is not just a story about a young man and his uncle, who introduced his nephew with simple numbers, whose beauty was so great that it predetermined the path of his whole life, this is a math tragedy, reminding of the games of the mind of John Nesha, Alan Turing, Kurt Gödel and other great ascetics of science . The author of the book Apostolos doxiadis is a Greek writer, a bright representative of modern intellectual prose. Thanks to his talent, the story of a strange uncle, who sought the solution of one of the most difficult tasks in all mathematics, becomes an exciting invitation to the world of scientific discoveries and mathematical ideas. The book is addressed to the widest circle of readers - from mathematicians and philosophers, historians and methodologists of science to those who are just approaching the choice of their life, it will remind them that mathematics recognize only the greatest, but remembers well everyone who was devoted to it
Author:
Author:Доксиадис А.
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Biographies & Memoirs
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Paper:
Paper:Offset
Age restrictions:
Age restrictions:12+
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-9710-4642-4
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