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Author Sangalli, Arturo, 1940-

Title Pythagoras' revenge : a mathematical mystery / Arturo Sangalli
Published Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 183 pages) : illustrations, map
Contents pt. 1. A time capsule? -- pt. 2. An extraordinarily gifted man -- pt. 3. A sect of neo-pythagoreans -- pt. 4. Pythagoras' mission
Summary The celebrated mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras left no writings. But what if he had and the manuscript was never found? Where would it be located? And what information would it reveal? These questions are the inspiration for the mathematical mystery novel Pythagoras' Revenge. Suspenseful and instructive, Pythagoras' Revenge weaves fact, fiction, mathematics, computer science, and ancient history into a surprising and sophisticated thriller. The intrigue begins when Jule Davidson, a young American mathematician who trolls the internet for difficult math riddles and stumbles upon a neo-
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Print version record
Subject Pythagoras -- Fiction
SUBJECT Pythagoras -- Manuscripts -- Fiction
Pythagoras / Fiction. blmlsh
Pythagoras fast
Subject Women mathematicians -- United States -- Fiction
Historians -- England -- Oxford -- Fiction
Mathematicians -- Greece -- Fiction
Mathematics, Ancient -- Greece -- Fiction
FICTION -- Mystery & Detective -- General.
Mathematics, Ancient
Mathematicians
Historians
Women mathematicians
England -- Oxford
Greece
United States
Genre/Form Detective and mystery fiction
Fiction
Mystery fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780691049557
0691049556
9781400829903
1400829909
0691150192
9780691150192
9781282157507
1282157507