Pythagorean Crimes by Tefcros Michaelides – Review

Pythagorean Crimes by Tefcros Michaelides

Pythagorean Crimes is set in the earlier part of the twentieth century, beginning with the death of a Stefanos Kandartzis in 1929, then jumping back to 1900, when the narrator, Michael Igerinos, first met Stefanos, at the mathematical congress held in Paris that year. At that congress David Hilbert presented his famous lecture on ‘Mathematical Problems’, in which he presented twenty-three of the major problems still to be resolved in mathematics (Ben H. Yandell’s The Honor’s Class: Hilbert’s Problems and their Solvers includes both the lecture and a discussion of all the problems and, where applicable, how they were solved and is highly recommended).

Pythagorean Crimes – Tefcros Michaelides.