The Solitude of Prime Numbers: A Novel
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780670021482 (0670021482)
ASIN: 0670021482
Publish date: 2010-03-18
Publisher: Pamela Dorman Books
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Italy,
Romance,
Literary Fiction,
Drama,
Contemporary,
Roman,
Italian Literature,
Fiction
A prime number is a lonely thing. It can be divided only by 1 and by itself. Think of 3,5,7,11,13,17,19 and keep counting. Now there is another concept called Twin Prime. Twin primes are prime numbers which are separated by one even number. Take for example 17 and 19. After 17 and 19, the next twin ...
"Prime numbers are divisible only by 1 and by themselves. They hold their place in the infinite series of natural numbers, squashed, like all numbers, between two others, but one step further than the rest. They are suspicious, solitary numbers, which is why Mattia thought they were wonderful. Some...
The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano is the second beautiful but sad Italian novel. Well, if I’m being honest, it’s downright depressing, but not in the week-long funk inducing way that Lev Grossman’s The Magicians and The Magician King were. The beauty of the Giordano’s prose tempers the...
This wonderful book follows the lives of two uniquely different characters, Mattia and Alice, she’s anorexic, he’s a cutter. Tragic accidents, resulting from foolish decisions, Mattia’s own when he leaves his twin alone in a park and Alice’s own when she decides to ski down a mountain alone, in the ...
Good, not great...
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