Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture

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• Go forth and multiply

  Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture Apostolos Doxiadis Faber £9.99, pp209 Buy it at BOL Does your heart skip a beat when you realise that 220 hooks up with 284 since the sum of the integer divisors of each one is equal to the other? Do you, at a g ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

• The prime suspects

  Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture Apostolos Doxiadis Faber, £9.99, 208pp Buy it at BOL Like all the best puzzles, Goldbach's Conjecture is easy to state: every even number greater than two is the sum of two primes. Computers have found this to b ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

1 Review

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  How do mathematicians choose their paths?

  A great mathematical fable which gives layman people a taste of the struggles and sense of achievement of being a mathematician.

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• English Books
• Paperback 224 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0571202039
• ISBN-13: 9780571202034
• Publisher: faber and faber
• Pub date: May 03, 2000
• Dimensions: 1419 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Hardcover
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