Pythagorean Crimes - Hardcover

Tefcros Michaelides

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1930972261 ISBN 13: 9781930972261

Publisher: Parmenides Publishing, 2008

Synopsis

After the murder of his best friend lands Michael Igerinos in the centre of the investigation as the prime suspect, he is transported back to the turn of the 20th Century, into the heart of Bohemian Paris and the sensual, hedonistic pursuits of the artists who haunted its infamous Moulin Rouge.

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Review:

"Tefcros Michaelides passionately yet humbly serves the marriage between mathematics and literature, seeking possible connections between two apparently disparate subjects." --George N. Perantonakis

""Pythagorean Crimes" is full of originality and narrative ease; it is a book one can read easily and enjoyably in one sitting. I strongly recommend it especially to those who don't understand a word of mathematics." --Vangelis Hadjivassiliou, "BIBLIOTEKE" Special Edition

," . . a most brilliant, captivating novel, masterfully integrating suspense with mathematical science, within the atmosphere of times past, and with a taste of Pythagorean mysticism. An excellent example of how mathematics and literature may be combined." --Helena Houzouri, "RADIOTELEORASE" Book Reviews

Tefcros Michaelides sets his mystery of the murder of a Greek mathematics high-school teacher against the backdrop of the history of early modernism and the great philosophical questions at the heart of modern mathematics. It's a delightful synthesis, at once great fun to read and insightful, giving a rare side view of the cultural significance of Godel's Incompleteness Theorem.
--Apostolos Doxiadis
"Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture"

A fun, interesting read. I especially enjoyed the encounters between the mathematicians and artists in Montmartre cabarets. The book is timely given the recent proof (in 2006) of the "Poincare conjecture." Henri Poincare was one of the leading mathematicians at the Paris International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris in 1900 where the novel opens. Four years later he made his famous conjecture which then became one of the million dollar millennium problems in 2000. I recommend "Pythagorean""Crimes" to anyone interested in the history of mathematics.
--Mark Ryan
"Calculus For Dummies" and "Geometry For Dummies"

"Pythagorean Crimes "is a thriller of the mind. It's the thinking-person's answer to the "Da""Vinci""Code". This novel gives a glimpse into the intellectually-charged atmosphere of early 20th century Europe. You're drawn into the characters' devotion to their work, and you wish you were sitting at the next table at the cafe, overhearing their conversations. Not content to just explore the personalities behind the intellectual developments of the 19th and 20th centuries, this novel makes the scholars' mathematical work as compelling as any of the characters. Few people associate mathematics and the sciences with the bustling social scene led by Picasso and his colleagues. Tefcros Michaelides breaks the stereotypes about mathematicians and their work as he spins a compelling tale about the greatest minds of 100 years ago and their passions for their work. This novel gives us a glimpse of what it was like to be an eager, young, and up-and-coming scholar during a time where intellectual pursuits were ripe for the picking. "Pythagorean""Crimes" shares what it's like to have a single-minded focus on a mathematical problem. This novel transports the reader (even one with no mathematical background) into a world where the pursuit of mathematical truth is an all-consuming force.
--Dr. Amy Szczepanski
"The Complete Idiot's Guide to Pre-Algebra (2008)
"Pythagorean Crimes" is a masterly-told story of romance, art, history, political intrigue, and mathematics, all woven together in a thriller that will be sure to captivate you from the first page to the last.""
"--Eli Maor"
The Pythagorean Theorem: A 4,000-Year History "and" To Infinity and Beyond: A Cultural History of the Infinite
"

""Pythagorean Crimes "is a thriller of the mind. It's the thinking-person's answer to the "Da Vinci Code."This novel gives a glimpse into the intellectually-charged atmosphere of early 20th century Europe. You're drawn into the characters' devotion to their work, and you wish you were sitting at the next table at the cafe, overhearing their conversations.Not content to just explore the personalities behind the intellectual developments of the 19th and 20th centuries, this novel makes the scholars' mathematical work as compelling as any of the characters.

Few people associate mathematics and the sciences with the bustling social scene led by Picasso and his colleagues. Tefcros Michaelides breaks the stereotypes about mathematicians and their work as he spins a compelling tale about the greatest minds of 100 years ago and their passions for their work.This novel gives us a glimpse of what it was like to be an eager, young, and up-and-coming scholar during a time where intellectual pursuits were ripe for the picking."Pythagorean Crimes" shares what it's like to have a single-minded focus on a mathematical problem. This novel transports the reader (even one with no mathematical background) into a world where the pursuit of mathematical truth is an all-consuming force."
Dr. Amy Szczepanski
"The Complete Idiot's Guide to Pre-Algebra (2008)" "

""Pythagorean Crimes" is a masterly-told story of romance, art, history, political intrigue, and mathematics, all woven together in a thriller that will be sure to captivate you from the first page to the last."
Eli Maor
"The Pythagorean Theorem: a 4,000-Year History andTo Infinity and Beyond: A Cultural History of the Infinite"
"

"Tefcros Michaelides sets his mystery of the murder of a Greek mathematics high-school teacher against the backdrop of the history of early modernism and the great philosophical questions at the heart of modern mathematics.It s a delightful synthesis, at once great fun to read and insightful, giving a rare side view of the cultural significance of Godel s Incompleteness Theorem."
Apostolos Doxiadis
"Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture"

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"Pythagorean Crimes is a thriller of the mind. It's the thinking-person's answer to the Da Vinci Code. This novel gives a glimpse into the intellectually-charged atmosphere of early 20th century Europe. You're drawn into the characters' devotion to their work, and you wish you were sitting at the next table at the cafe, overhearing their conversations. Not content to just explore the personalities behind the intellectual developments of the 19th and 20th centuries, this novel makes the scholars' mathematical work as compelling as any of the characters.

Few people associate mathematics and the sciences with the bustling social scene led by Picasso and his colleagues. Tefcros Michaelides breaks the stereotypes about mathematicians and their work as he spins a compelling tale about the greatest minds of 100 years ago and their passions for their work. This novel gives us a glimpse of what it was like to be an eager, young, and up-and-coming scholar during a time where intellectual pursuits were ripe for the picking. Pythagorean Crimes shares what it's like to have a single-minded focus on a mathematical problem. This novel transports the reader (even one with no mathematical background) into a world where the pursuit of mathematical truth is an all-consuming force."
--Dr. Amy Szczepanski
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Pre-Algebra (2008)

Synopsis:

Athens, 1929. Stefanos Kantartzis is found murA-dered, and Michael Igerinos, his best friend of 30 years, is being questioned by the police as the last person to see him alive. While looking at his dead frienda??s body, Michael is immediately taken back to the late summer of 1900 when he and Stefanos first met in the crammed Sorbonne University lecture hall. The story of their friendship begins during the Second International Congress of Mathematicsa??an event that was to become a landmark for 20th century mathematical research. At the root of this historically based work of ficA-tion lies the question as to whether the solution to a mathematical problem could inspire such pasA-sion, so intense and perilous, as to drive someone to murder. The story takes the reader behind the scenes of academia, into the world of Bertrand Russell, HilA-bert, Poincar??, and G??del, and through the streets of Bohemian Paris at the heyday of Montmartre, the Moulin Rouge, and the a??Zuta??a??the infamous hangA-out of Toulouse-Lautrec, Picasso, Max Jacob, and many other colorful characters. Pythagorean Crimes follows in the tradition of popular mathematical fiction like Doxiadisa??

Uncle Petros and Goldbacha??s Conjecture and Martineza?? Oxford Murders. Yet brings with it old-world charm and the cultural richness of the social, political, sciA-entific and intellectual circles of early 20th century France, Germany

About this edition

• Publisher: Parmenides Publishing
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1930972261
• ISBN 13: 9781930972261
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 280