by Denis Guedj · Editorial Empúries · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788475969282
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«El teorema del lloro» is the mathematical mystery novel by Denis Guedj, published by Editorial Empúries in paperback (752 pages, in Catalan).
An old Parisian bookseller receives a letter from a mathematician friend he hasn't seen since World War II and, shortly after, discovers he has died under strange circumstances. Rereading the missive, full of mathematical references, he believes he finds a coded message that leads him to investigate the enigma and delve into the history of mathematics.
Work originally published in French in 1998 (Le Théorème du perroquet) and translated into Catalan by Anna Casassas; it belongs to the Butxaca collection.
For those seeking a novel that combines mystery and mathematical popularization in an engaging way.
Denis Guedj was a French novelist and a professor of the History of Science at Paris VIII University. He was born in Setif. He spent many years devising courses and games to teach adults and children math. He is the author of Numbers: The Universal Language and of the novel The Parrot's Theorem. He died in Paris.
