Uncle Petros and the problem of Goldbach. 2nd edition, corrected and supplemented. Doxiadis A.

Before the reader is an amazing book translated into all the main languages ​​of the world and has become the world intellectual bestseller. She tells about the history of one mathematician, Petros Papakhristos, who remained to the end of the faithful great idea of ​​the knowledge of the truth, who has devoted his whole life to the search for a solution to a single scientific problem, which was beyond the power of the great minds of the past.

This is not just a story About the young man and his uncle, who introduced the nephew with simple numbers, whose beauty was so great that it predetermined the path of his whole life; This is the tragedy of mathematics, reminding of the games of the mind of John Nash, Alan Turing, Kurt Gödel and other great ascetics of science.

The author of the book Apostolos Doxiadis is a Greek writer, a bright representative of modern intellectual prose. Thanks to his talent, the narrative of a strange uncle, who was looking for a solution to one of the most difficult tasks in all mathematics, becomes an exciting invitation to the world of scientific discoveries and mathematical ideas.

The book is addressed to the widest circle of readers - from mathematicians and philosophers, historians and historians and historians and philosophers. methodologists of science to those who are only approaching the choice of the work of their life; She will remind them that mathematics recognizes only the greatest, but remembers well everyone who was devoted to her.