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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
text file
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-
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Subject Pythagoras -- Fiction.
Pythagoras.
Genre/Form Fiction.
Subject Pythagoras / Fiction.
Women mathematicians -- United States -- Fiction.
Women mathematicians.
United States.
Historians -- England -- Oxford -- Fiction.
Historians.
England -- Oxford.
Mathematicians, Ancient -- Greece -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Mystery fiction.
Fiction.
Other Form: Print version: Sangalli, Arturo, 1940- Pythagoras' revenge. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, ©2009 (DLC) 2008944149
ISBN 9780691049557 (Cloth)
0691049556 (Cloth)
9781400829903 (electronic book)
1400829909 (electronic book)
0691150192
9780691150192
9780691150192