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Название книги: Uncle Petros and Goldbach
Автор(ы): Apostolos Doxiadis
Жанр: Современная проза
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Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylusis forgotten, because languages die and mathematicalideas do not. 'Immortality' may be a silly word,but probably a mathematician has the bestchance of whatever it may mean.G. H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology
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Every family has its black sheep – in ours it was Uncle Petros.My father and Uncle Anargyros, his two younger brothers, made sure that my cousins and I should inherit their opinion of him unchallenged.“That no-good brother of mine, Petros, is one of life's failures”, my father would say at every opportunity. And Uncle Anargyros, during the family get-togethers from which Uncle Petros routinely absented himself, always accompanied mention of his name with snorts and grimaces expressing disapproval, disdain or simple resignation, depending on his mood.However, I must say this for them: both brothers treated him with scrupulous fairness in financial matters. Despite the fact that he never shared even a slight part of the labo
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