About “Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture”
Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture is a 1992 novel by Greek author Apostolos Doxiadis. It concerns a young man's interaction with his reclusive uncle, who seeks to prove Goldbach's conjecture, the famous open mathematical claim that every even number greater than two is the sum of two primes. The novel discusses mathematical problems and some recent history of mathematics. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)
Book details
- Published
- 1993
Some summaries adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.