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Related read: Apostolos Doxiadis' novel "Uncle Petros and Goldbach's conjecture", an entertaining account of a mathematician's effort to prove the result.
by merraksh 14y ago
Related read: Apostolos Doxiadis' novel "Uncle Petros and Goldbach's conjecture", an entertaining account of a mathematician's effort to prove the result.
- edanm 14y agoVery heavily seconded. One of my favorite novels, it does a really good job of giving a "feeling" of mathematics, without including any actual mathematics. This is the same author as Logicomix, which is aslo very highly recommended - a comic about logic, Godel, and the foundations of mathematics. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logicomix http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logicomix http://www.amazon.com/Logicomix-An-Epic-Search-Truth/dp/1596914521/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1357459643&sr=8-1&keywords=Logicomix http://www.amazon.com/Logicomix-An-Epic-Search-Truth/dp/1596... (this might be with a refferal link, I'm not sure - you have been warned :)