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.
Scontato e avvilente. All'idea che "Mathematicus nascitur, non fit" preferisco di gran lunga l'ammonizione di Von Neumann: "La matematica non c'e` bisogno di capirla, alla matematica ci si abitua".
