by Denis Guedj · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782702822791
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«Le théorème du perroquet» is the novel by Denis Guedj, published by Le Grand livre du mois in paperback (525 pages, in French).
The bookseller Ruche inherits a mathematics library from a friend who disappeared in the Amazon. With Max, a deaf boy, and a talkative parrot, he traces the history of the discipline, from the Greeks to Fermat. The inheritance also hides a mystery that unleashes a race to protect vital theorems.
Originally published in 1998, the work received a nomination for the Premi Llibreter for narrative in 2000.
For readers who want to approach the history of mathematics through a fictional plot.
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.
