Oom Petros en het vermoeden van Goldbach

by Apostolos Doxiadis

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Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture is a 1992 novel by Greek author Apostolos Doxiadis.
It concerns a young man's interaction with his reclusive uncle, who sought to prove that any even number greater than two is the sum of two primes, which is a famous unsolved mathematics problem called Goldbach's Conjecture. This unusual novel discusses mathematical problems and some recent history of mathematics.
As a publicity stunt, the publishers announced a $1 million prize for anybody who proved Goldbach's Conjecture within two years of the book's publication in 2000. Not surprisingly, given the difficulty of the problem, the prize went unclaimed.

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M3t3or

Ein wirklich interessantes Buch, welches tiefe Einblicke in die Welt der Theoretischen Mathematik erlaubt, ohne dass man selbst etwas davon verstehen müsste. Eine sehr gute Story, die in der Realität verankert ist !

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