Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture
| Author | Apostolos Doxiadis |
|---|---|
| Original title | Ο θείος Πέτρος και η εικασία του Γκόλντμπαχ |
| Language | Greek |
| Genre | Novel, Mathematical fiction |
Publication date | 1992 |
Published in English | 2000 |
| ISBN | 1582341281 |
| Website | https://www.apostolosdoxiadis.com/book/uncle-petros-and-goldbachs-conjecture/ |
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 a famous unsolved mathematics problem, called Goldbach's conjecture, that every even number greater than two is the sum of two primes. The novel discusses mathematical problems and some recent history of mathematics.