Sangalli, Arturo, 1940-

Pythagoras' revenge a mathematical mystery / [Book] : Arturo Sangalli. - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2009. - xv, 183 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.

The celebrated mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras left no writings. But what if he had and the manuscript had never been found? Where would it be located? Two mathematicians, one American, one British, set out, unbeknownst to each other, to find the missing manuscript.

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Women mathematicians--United States--Fiction.
Historians--England--Oxford--Fiction.
Mathematics, Ancient--Greece--Fiction.
Secret societies--Fiction.

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