An outrageous graphic novel that investigates key concepts in mathematics Integers and permutations--two of the most basic mathematical objects--are born of different fields and analyzed with separate techniques.
Beautifully drawn and exquisitely detailed, Prime Suspects is unique, astonishing, and witty--a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to experience mathematics like never before..
Feel the frustration--and the excitement--of our young heroine, Emmy Germain, as she blazes a trail for women in mathematical research and learns from Professor Gauss, the greatest forensic detective of them all.
Tremble at the ferocity of the believers in deep and rigid abstraction.
Travel with Detective von Neumann as he leaves no clue unturned, from shepherds\' huts in the Pyrenees to secret societies in the caf s of Paris, from the hidden codes in the music of the stones to the grisly discoveries in Finite Fields.
Prime Suspects is a graphic novel that takes you on a voyage of forensic discovery, exploring some of the most fundamental ideas in mathematics.
Yet when the Mathematical Sciences Investigation team of crack forensic mathematicians, led by Professor Gauss, begins its autopsies of the victims of two seemingly unrelated homicides, Arnie Integer and Daisy Permutation, they discover the most extraordinary similarities between the structures of each body.
An outrageous graphic novel that investigates key concepts in mathematics Integers and permutations--two of the most basic mathematical objects--are born of different fields and analyzed with separate techniques
