Prime Suspects
The Anatomy of Integers and Permutations: A Mathematical Sciences Investigation
Andrew Granville, Jennifer Granville
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Prime Suspects
The Anatomy of Integers and Permutations: A Mathematical Sciences Investigation
Andrew Granville, Jennifer Granville
Ă propos de ce livre
An outrageous graphic novel that investigates key concepts in mathematics Integers and permutationsâtwo of the most basic mathematical objectsâare born of different fields and analyzed with separate techniques. Yet when the Mathematical Sciences Investigation team of crack forensic mathematicians, led by Professor Gauss, begins its autopsies of the victims of two seemingly unrelated homicides, Arnie Integer and Daisy Permutation, they discover the most extraordinary similarities between the structures of each body. Prime Suspects is a graphic novel that takes you on a voyage of forensic discovery, exploring some of the most fundamental ideas in mathematics. Travel with Detective von Neumann as he leaves no clue unturned, from shepherds' huts in the Pyrenees to secret societies in the cafĂ©s of Paris, from the hidden codes in the music of the stones to the grisly discoveries in Finite Fields. Tremble at the ferocity of the believers in deep and rigid abstraction. Feel the frustrationâand the excitementâof our young heroine, Emmy Germain, as she blazes a trail for women in mathematical research and learns from Professor Gauss, the greatest forensic detective of them all.Beautifully drawn and exquisitely detailed, Prime Suspects is unique, astonishing, and wittyâa once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to experience mathematics like never before.