The Oxford Murders by Guillermo Martinez
Using rules and axioms, there will always be some propositions that can't be proved either true or false. But can this apply to murder? Godel's Theorem of Incompleteness is familiar territory to the young South American mathematician who arrives in Oxford. Murder, however, is not. Yet barely has he greeted his elderly landlady - and her rather luscious granddaughter - when he is bidding her a posthumous farewell. Mrs Eagleton is murdered in her wheelchair. The only clue to the crime is a cryptic symbol and the words 'the first in the series'. It's not much to go on, but it's enough to appeal to Arthur Seldom, one of the leading minds in logic. His most famous work of philosophy contains a chapter on serial killers. This killer, clearly, has read it. And the second murder, of an elderly hospital patient, confirms that his methods of killing are deliberately designed to appeal to mathematicians. And that he's an intellectual megalomaniac...
An enthralling conflict between the heart and the mind'OBSERVER 'Unusual blend of murder most foul and mathematics most pure ... a playful intellectual exercise' DAILY MAIL 'An intellectual thriller that can be much enjoyed even by those whose grasp of mathematics is limited' THE TIMES 'If you like your detective stories gore-free, with a strong crossword-solving element, this is for you' THE TIMES 'The plot rattles along ... pausing occasionally to fill the reader in with a bit of necessary theoretical background'. LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS
Guillermo Martinez was born in Bahia Blanca, Argentina, in 1962. Since 1985 he has lived in Buenos Aires, where he obtained a Ph.D. in Mathematical Science.THE OXFORD MURDERS was awarded the prestigious Planeta prize and has been made into a film starring Elijah Wood.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780349120942 |
| ISBN 10 | 0349120943 |
| Title | The Oxford Murders |
| Author | Guillermo Martinez |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 2008-04-17 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
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