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5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent book even if you are clueless about mathematics, May 3 2002

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Arthur Ewenczyk (Washington DC, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture: A Novel of Mathematical Obsession (Paperback)

This is an excellent novel on a mathematical level as well as on a psychological level which is great fun. I really am clueless in mathematics, but it isn't a bother at all. You fully comprehend the story and learn a lot about maths even without a close reading. However if you are interested by the mathematical part all the theorems are clearly presented as foot notes.
This is really an excellent novel!

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5.0 out of 5 stars fun read for the mathematicallly curious, Mar 2 2002

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Carol C. "ccjello" (Kansas City, MO USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture (Hardcover)

I picked up this book after watching the movie A Beautiful Mind -- it's a delightful, easy-to-read novel about an aspiring mathemetician who tries to get to know the truth about his eccentric mathemetician uncle. The book details the uncle's life-long struggle to solve Goldbach's Conjecture, which (for you non-mathemeticians, like me) posits that every even number greater than two is the sum of two primes. I felt like the novel showed a somewhat realistic perspective of a driven, obsessed scientist, and showed how the scientist's activities and behaviors affected and even alienated those around him. The protagonist is the only member of the mathemetician's family who bothers to get to know and appreciate him -- and that is a struggle, as the mathemetician often does things to alienate his nephew. Don't be put off by the math; it's actuallyq quite easy to read.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding, Nov 27 2001

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Opher Liba (Jerusalem, Israel) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture: A Novel of Mathematical Obsession (Paperback)

One of the best books on the mathematical culture and the mathematical "passion".
Written as a novel makes it easy to read.

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