Pythagoras' Revenge : : A Mathematical Mystery / / Arturo Sangalli.
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. Suspensef...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (208 p.) :; 10 line illus. 1 map. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of Main Characters
- Prologue
- PART I. A TIME CAPSULE?
- Chapter 1. THE FIFTEEN PUZZLE
- Chapter 2. The Impossible Manuscript
- Chapter 3. Game Over
- Chapter 4. A Trip to London
- Chapter 5. A Letter from the Past
- Chapter 6. Found and Lost
- Chapter 7. A Death in the Family
- PART II. AN EXTRAORDINARILY GIFTED MAN
- Chapter 8. The Mission
- Chapter 9. Norton Thorp
- Chapter 10. Random Numbers
- Chapter 11. Randomness Everywhere
- Chapter 12. Vanished
- PART III. A SECT OF NEO-PYTHAGOREANS
- Chapter 13. The Mandate
- Chapter 14. The Beacon
- Chapter 15. The Team
- Chapter 17. The Symbol of the Serpent
- Chapter 18. A Professional Job
- Chapter 19. With a Little Help from Your Sister
- PART IV. PYTHAGORAS' MISSION
- Chapter 20. ALL ROADS LEAD TO ROME
- Chapter 21. Kidnapped
- Chapter 22. The Last Piece of the Puzzle
- Epilogue
- Appendix 1: Jule's Solution
- Appendix 2: Infinitely Many Primes
- Appendix 3: Random Sequences
- Appendix 4: A Simple Visual Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem
- Appendix 5: Perfect and Figured Numbers
- Notes, Credits, and Bibliographical Sources