by Apostolos Doxiadis · Ediciones B · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788440694904
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«El tío Petros y la conjetura de Goldbach» is the novel by Apostolos Doxiadis, published by Ediciones B in paperback (199 pages, in Spanish).
Petros's nephew discovers that his uncle, an old man withdrawn from social life, was an eminent mathematician who devoted his life to Goldbach's conjecture, a famous unsolved enigma. The novel explores obsession and the price of knowledge, and touches on the history of mathematics with Hardy, Ramanujan, Turing and Gödel.
Novel originally published in Greek in 1992; this Spanish edition, translated by M.ª Eugenia Ciocchini, came out in 2000.
Recommended for readers of literary fiction and fans of mathematics, philosophy and popular science.
