num_pages: 200
description: In the tradition of Fermat's Last Theorem and Einstein's Dreams, a novel about mathematical obsession.Petros Papachristos devotes the early part of his life trying to prove one of the greatest mathematical challenges of all time: Goldbach's Conjecture, the deceptively simple claim that every even number greater than two is the sum of two primes. Against a tableau of famous historical figures-among them G.H. Hardy, the self-taught Indian genius Srinivasa Ramanujan, and a young Kurt Godel-Petros works furiously to prove the notoriously difficult conjecture. Decades later, his ambitious young nephew drives the defeated mathematician back into the hunt to prove Goldbach's Conjecture. . . but at the cost of the old man's sanity, and perhaps even his life.
language: French
title: Oncle Petros et la Conjecture de Goldbach
titlecomplete: Oncle Petros et la Conjecture de Goldbach
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Greece, Philosophy, Australia, Literature, Popular Science, Novels, Contemporary, Mathematics
ratings_count: 5902
publisher: Seuil (Points)