num_pages: 224
description: Uncle Petros is a family joke - an ageing recluse in a suburb of Athens, playing chess and gardening. His young nephew soon discovers his uncle was once a celebrated mathematician who staked all on solving the problem of Goldbach's Conjecture.
language: English
title: Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture
titlecomplete: Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture
genres: Australia, Mathematics, Mystery, Philosophy, Popular Science, Novels, Greece, Literature, Contemporary, Fiction
ratings_count: 5902
publisher: Faber and Faber