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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...
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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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