One that may well be connected to a fatal car crash nearly three decades previously. Hes searching for that metnal balm - order within chaos - as he follows the steps of a theorem. But what is he trying to signal? Why the symbols? What mathematical equation must be solved? Our hero, thrilled to be working with the complex Seldom, is also intrigued by the aesthetic of simplicity. And that hes an intellectual megalomaniac. And the second murder, of an elderly hospital patient, confirms that his methods of killing are deliberately designed to appeal to mathematicians. His most famous work of philosophy contains a chapter on serial killers. Its not much to go on, but its enough to appeal to Arthur Seldom, one of the leading minds in logic. The only clue to the crime is a cryptic symbol and the words the first in the series. Mrs Eagleton is murdered in her wheelchair. Yet barely has he greeted his elderly landlady - and her rather luscious granddaughter - when he is bidding her a posthumous farewell. The only clue to the crime is a cryptic symbol and Gödels Theorem of Incompleteness is familiar territory to the young South American mathematician who arrives in Oxford. But then renowned logician Arthur Seldom, author of a book on the mathematics of serial killers, tells of a strange note left in his mailbox. Gödels Theorem of Incompleteness is familiar territory to the young South American mathematician who arrives in Oxford. When an Argentine math student discovers the smothered body of his landlady, conventional wisdom points to a family member with the most prosaic of motives.
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