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Author Sangalli, Arturo, 1940-

Title Pythagoras' revenge : a mathematical mystery / Arturo Sangalli.

Publication Info. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2009]
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 183 pages) : illustrations, map
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
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-
Note Print version record.
Subject Pythagoras -- Fiction.
Pythagoras / Fiction.
Pythagoras. (OCoLC)fst00065615
Pythagoras / Fiction.
Women mathematicians -- United States -- Fiction.
Historians -- England -- Oxford -- Fiction.
Mathematicians, Ancient -- Greece -- Fiction.
Mathematics, Ancient -- Greece -- Fiction.
Secret societies -- Fiction.
FICTION -- Mystery & Detective -- General.
Historians. (OCoLC)fst00957686
Manuscripts. (OCoLC)fst01008230
Mathematics, Ancient. (OCoLC)fst01012355
Secret societies. (OCoLC)fst01110663
Women mathematicians. (OCoLC)fst01178130
England -- Oxford. (OCoLC)fst01205511
Greece. (OCoLC)fst01208380
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Women mathematicians / United States / Fiction.
Historians / England / Oxford / Fiction.
Mathematics, Ancient / Greece / Fiction.
Secret societies / Fiction.
Genre/Form Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Mystery fiction.
Other Form: Print version: Sangalli, Arturo, 1940- Pythagoras' revenge. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, ©2009 (DLC) 2008944149
ISBN 9781400829903 (electronic bk.)
1400829909 (electronic bk.)
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