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Wanting to understand the most fundamental questions of the universe isn't the province
of ivory-tower intellectuals alone, as this book's enormous popularity has demonstrated. A
young girl, Sophie, becomes embroiled in a discussion of philosophy with a faceless
correspondent. At the same time, she must unravel a
mystery involving another young girl, Hilde, by using
everything she's learning. The truth is far more complicated
than she could ever have imagined.
LOGICOMIXBY APOSTOLOS DOXIADIS
Wanting to understand the most fundamental questions of the universe isn't the province
of ivory-tower intellectuals alone, as this book's enormous popularity has demonstrated. A
young girl, Sophie, becomes embroiled in a discussion of philosophy with a faceless
correspondent. At the same time, she must unravel a
mystery involving another young girl, Hilde, by using
everything she's learning. The truth is far more complicated
than she could ever have imagined.
SOPHIE'S WORLDBY JOSTEIN GAARDER
In numerology and gkematria the faith of the ancient world to the
magical and occult powers of numbers to use in modern
sophisticated secret codes of the art cryptographic ˙ of the achievements of Thales of
Miletus, Pythagoras and Euclid to the discoveries of genius Gauss,
Euler's of Ramanoutzan and Hardy ˙ from the study speech phi, the Golden Facility to the
famous Fibonacci sequence, and the Goldbach Conjecture to the
famous Riemann hypothesis, the Clawson reveals the hidden truths
of mathematics are a delicious food for the spirit as music,
painting and literature.
MATHEMATICAL MYSTERIES
BY CALVIN C. CLAWSON
Chronicles the travails of two young friends, as they
struggle with their families, their neuroses,
and their inability to fit in with society. As they grow
up, they rely on each other, and their
respective passions--mathematics and
photography--to help them survive the pain
they find in living.
THE SOLITUDE OF PRIME NUMBERS
BY PAOLO GIORDANO
When Mr. Ruche, a reclusive Parisian
bookseller, receives a letter from a long lost friend in the Amazon be questing
him a vast library of mathematical book, he is
propelled into a great exploration of the story of math, from brilliant Greek
thinkers, such as Archimedes and Pythagoras,
to the modern-day genius Fermat.
THE PARROT'S THEOREMBY DENIS GUEDJ
The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are
suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his
delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns
detective. His tools are the logic of Aristotle, the theology
of Aquinas, the empirical insights of Roger Bacon--all
sharpened to a glistening edge by wry humor and a ferocious
curiosity. He collects evidence, deciphers secret symbols and coded manuscripts, and digs into the eerie labyrinth of the
abbey, where "the most interesting things happen at
night."
THE NAME OF THE ROSEBY UMBERTO ECO
While in Paris, Harvard symbol gist Robert Langdon is awakened by a phone call in the dead of the night. The
elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum, his body covered in baffling symbols. As Langdon and gifted French cryptologist Sophie Neveu sort through the
bizarre riddles, they are stunned to discover a trail of clues hidden in the works of
Leonardo Da Vinci—clues visible for all to see and yet ingeniously disguised by the
painter.
THE DA VINCI CODEBY DAN BROWN
It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened." Thus opens this
haunting novel in which a boy inhabits a seemingly ideal world: a world without conflict, poverty, unemployment, divorce, injustice, or
inequality. It is a time in which family values are paramount, teenage rebellion is unheard of, and even good manners are a way of life. December
is the time of the annual Ceremony at which each twelve year old receives a life assignment
determined by the Elders. Jonas watches his friend Fiona named Caretaker of the Old and his cheerful pal Asher labeled the Assistant Director
of Recreation. But Jonas has been chosen for something special. When his selection leads him
to an unnamed man -the man called only the Giver -he begins to sense the dark secrets that
underlie the fragile perfection of his world. Told with deceptive simplicity, this is the provocative
story of a boy who experiences something incredible and undertakes something
impossible. In the telling it questions every value we have taken for granted and reexamines
our most deeply held beliefs
THE GIVERBY LOIS LOWRY
Hypatia, daughter of the mathematician and astronomer
Gods, the last director of the Museum of Alexandria, was born
in the mid-4th century AD Quickly surpassed the knowledge of Gods
and taught an elite group of students who changed the Alexandria one of the most
prominent research centers of antiquity. In 415, the High victim
of repeated rape, tortured and dismembered by a group of
fundamentalist Christians who acted under the orders of the
patriarch of the city. However, her name had been exposed to history
and remembered today as a symbol of a privileged intelligence
that was a challenge for the obscurantism of the season.
AGORABY PEDRO GALVEZ
The five Aemer lives of five pages from the tortured history of Mesopotamia, the five phases
of the discovery of the most mysterious figure, the number indicating the total absence: 0. The story begins during a U.S.
bombing in modern Iraq unfolds backwards, at the time the
country lived the Sumerians, the Babylonians, Arabs, all
those folks who have contributed to shaping the
presumed more illusory concept, the concept of ...
nothing.
ZEROBY DENIS GUEDJ
Athens, 1929. The mathematician Stephen Kantartzis found dead in his
room. A close friend, also a mathematician, Michael Igerinos be
invited to identify the corpse. Standing in front of a dead friend, reminisces
Igerinos the approximately thirty years of their acquaintance; the first meeting,
in a math conference in 1900, the friendship with the avant garde of the
Parisian intelligentsia, their wanderings in Paris of the Belle Epoque , the
Balkan Wars, the divisions, the Asia Minor Catastrophe. He remembers the stormy mathematical arguments, their loves, their war their adventures. The
sound of a rhombus him back here. The question is urgent? Who Killed Stephen
Kantartzis, mainly because he killed? Police adventure with a strong
mathematical flavor, campus novel or novel era, the "Pythagorean crimes' tell
a fictional crime with a real background, bell, and mathematical
problem.
PYTHAGOREAN CRIMESBY TEUCER MICHAELIDES
Christopher is a strange novel. He knows all the
countries and capitals of the world knows too much about
math and very little about them. He likes to makes maps and charts, loves
detective novels and red. He does not like yellow and
brown, can not stand being touched and can not tell lies. When he finds her dog dead
neighbor, puts to unravel the mystery. His quest, however, will drag on rough trails ...
THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME
BY MARK HADDON
The history of mathematics can't be properly told without mention of Archimedes of Syracuse (c. 287 B.C.-c. 212 B.C.), yet this ancient
Greek very nearly disappeared from history. His known body of
work was contained in three manuscripts, two of which have
vanished. The third survived thanks to a 13th-century monastic
scribe who copied a devotional book onto a previously used
palimpsest. It was not until 1906 that a scholar discovered that an imperfectly erased mathematical text lay beneath. The Archimedes
Codex tells the story of this discovery, the recovery of seven long-lost treatises, and how they
have changed the history of mathematics and science.
THE ARCHIMEDES CODEXBY REVIEL NETZ
On a summer's day in Oxford, a young Argentine mathematics student finds his landlady murdered. Meanwhile, leading Oxford logician Arthur Seldom receives an anonymous note bearing a circle and
the words, "the first of the series."" "Murders begin to pile up - an old man
on life-support is found dead with needle punctures in his throat -
seemingly unconnected except for notes appearing in the math department, for
the attention of Seldom." Seldom guesses that the murders relate to his
book about the parallels between investigations of serial killers and
certain mathematical theorems. As he and the young student are drawn
further into the game, it is up to the mentor and student to solve the puzzle
before the killer strikes again.
THE OXFORD MURDERSBY GUILLERMO MARTINEZ
One sleepy Sunday morning in Buenos Aires a struggling writer
receives an unexpected phone call that draws him into the tangled
story of Luciana, an old acquaintance, and Kloster, a rival author. The shocking things he
discovers will make him question everything he had always taken for
granted about chance and calculation, cause and effect." One
by one, Luciana's loved ones are dying - and she or her sister could
be next. She's convinced that Kloster is behind the deaths,
punishing her for the breakup of his family in a murderous frenzy of
revenge worthy of one of his bestselling crime novels. But which comes first, murder or novel? The Book of Murder is a tale in which the line between fact and fiction
suddenly seems blurred.
THE BOOK OF MURDERBY GUILLERMO MARTINEZ
Uncle Peter is an enigma. The elders of the family
Papachristou reject as "a failed life. Until the
narrator, discovers that his nephew was once famed
mathematician and genius so bold as to devote his life
to the notorious "Goldbach's Guess" a
problem trying in vain to solve mathematical
generations. The discovery will lead to chain reactions.
UNCLE PETER BY APOSTOLOS DOXIADIS
The numbers are not boring and mathematics is inaccessible.
Because involved in all human thought and Creation: philosophy, art, literature, music, architecture,
physics, biology, quantum mechanics, computers, commerce,
religion, occultism. Because involved in secret documents, rivalries, intrigues, and even
deaths among genius, eccentric but everyday people, famous
mathematicians who have revealed their secrets. This book,
beautifully illustrated with historic art and photographs, presents penetrating many of the major
mathematical breakthroughs in all these categories.
THE BOOK OF NUMBERSBY PETER J. BENTLEY
ALICE IN WONDERLANDBY LEWIS CARROLL
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in
Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles
Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Caroll. It tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls
down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world (the Wonderland of the title)
populated by peculiar and anthropomorphic creatures. The tale plays with logic in ways that
have given the story lasting popularity with adults as well as
children. It is considered to be one of the best examples of the literally nonsense genre, and its narrative course and structure have been
enormously influential, especially in the fantasy genre.
ANGELS AND DEMONSBY DAN BROWN
An ancient secret brotherhood. A devastating new weapon of
destruction. An unthinkable target. When world-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is
summoned to his first assignment to a Swiss research facility to analyze a mysterious symbol -- seared into the chest of a murdered physicist -- he
discovers evidence of the unimaginable: the resurgence of an
ancient secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati...the most powerful underground organization ever to walk the earth. The Illuminati has now surfaced to carry out the final
phase of its legendary vendetta against its most hated enemy -- the
Catholic Church.
Students of A class:
Panagiotis Digidikis
Filitsa Kougioumtzoglou
Teacher: Koutskoudis Panagiotis