Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture
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Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture is a novel that blends mathematical history and fiction to explore obsession, genius, and the pursuit of an unsolved problem in number theory.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
mathematical fiction
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novel ⓘ |
| author | Apostolos Doxiadis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| character |
Petros Papachristos
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unnamed nephew narrator ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Greece ⓘ |
| englishEditionPublisher | Bloomsbury Publishing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPublicationLanguage | Greek ⓘ |
| genre |
mathematical fiction
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novel ⓘ philosophical fiction ⓘ |
| hasAudience |
general readers
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readers interested in mathematics ⓘ readers of literary fiction ⓘ |
| hasCoverSubject | mathematics ⓘ |
| hasFictionalRepresentationOf |
Goldbach’s conjecture
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academic community ⓘ mathematical research ⓘ |
| hasMathematicalTopic |
additive number theory
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infinite series ⓘ prime numbers ⓘ proof and rigor ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | postmodern literature ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Goldbach’s conjecture
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failure ⓘ family relationships ⓘ genius ⓘ mathematical obsession ⓘ mathematics ⓘ number theory ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| notableFor |
depicting the psychology of a mathematician
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popularizing interest in Goldbach’s conjecture ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Greek ⓘ |
| protagonist | Petros Papachristos NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1992 ⓘ |
| setting |
Europe
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Greece NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
cost of genius
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interplay of life and mathematics ⓘ limits of human intellect ⓘ obsession with an unsolved problem ⓘ relationship between success and failure ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 20th century ⓘ |
| translatedInto | English ⓘ |
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subject surface form:
Apostolos Doxiadis