The Three-Body Problem
Published on 27. May 2013
352 pages
978-0-7490-1444-5 (ISBN)
Description
Cambridge, 1888. When schoolmistress Vanessa Duncan learns of a murder at St John's College, little does she know that she will become deeply entangled in the mystery. Dr Geoffrey Akers, Fellow in Pure Mathematics, has been found dead, struck down by a violent blow to the head. What could provoke such a brutal act? Vanessa, finding herself in amongst Cambridge's brightest scholarly minds, discovers that the motive may lie in mathematics itself.
Drawn closer to the case by a blossoming friendship with mathematician Arthur Weatherburn, Vanessa begins to investigate. When she learns of Sir Isaac Newton's elusive 'n-body problem' and the prestigious prize offered to anyone with a solution, things begin to make sense. But with further deaths occurring and the threat of an innocent man being condemned, Vanessa must hurry with her calculations . . .
Drawn closer to the case by a blossoming friendship with mathematician Arthur Weatherburn, Vanessa begins to investigate. When she learns of Sir Isaac Newton's elusive 'n-body problem' and the prestigious prize offered to anyone with a solution, things begin to make sense. But with further deaths occurring and the threat of an innocent man being condemned, Vanessa must hurry with her calculations . . .
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
File size
0,96 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-7490-1444-5 (9780749014445)
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Catherine Shaw
The Three-Body Problem
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05/2013
Allison & Busby
€29.89
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Person
Catherine Shaw is a pseudonym. She is a mathematician and academic and writer of murder mysteries. She lives in Paris, France.
Content
- Intro
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM
- MATHEMATICAL HISTORY IN THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM
- About the Author
- By Catherine Shaw
- Copyright
