The French Mathematician () Tom Petsinis (click on names to see more mathematical fiction by the same author) Highly Rated! A fictionalized account (in first person) of the life and untimely death of Evariste Galois, originator of the mathematical subject now known as group theory. Tom Petsinis teaches math at a university in Australia, and this is the first of his books to be published in the United States. The bare outline of Petsinis's book is interesting, but unfortunately The French Mathematician is somewhat overburdened with flowery language and hallucinatory dream sequences. When Galois works hard on a math problem, he tends to fall into a reverie, like this: "My heart was Cited by: 8. "The French mathematician is Evariste Galois, brilliant and tragic, whose work was dismissed by his contemporaries. A fervent Republican in post-Revolutionary France, Galois was imprisoned at the age of twenty and died a year later in a mysterious early-morning duel.
"I refuse to be a mathematician in a prison, and Paris will continue to be a prison until King Charles and the Church are overthrown", declares the student Evariste Galois in the revolutionary year of in a new novel by Tom Petsinis. The French Mathematician: Tom Petsinis. Something went wrong. View cart for details. The French Mathematician by Petsinis, Tom and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at www.doorway.ru
The French Mathematician () Tom Petsinis (click on names to see more mathematical fiction by the same author) Highly Rated! A fictionalized account (in first. The French Mathematician by Tom Petsinis. Click here for the lowest price! Hardcover, , Tom Petsinis is a novelist, poet, and playwright. As a student, he became interested in the tragic story of Evariste Galois while attending a lecture on Grou.
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