by Catherine Shaw · Roca Editorial de Libros · tapa dura · ISBN 9788496284746
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«La incógnita Newton» is the mystery novel by Catherine Shaw, published by Roca Editorial de Libros in hardcover (320 pages, in Spanish).
In 1888 Cambridge, young governess Vanessa Duncan sees three mathematicians murdered while they investigate an enigma posed by Isaac Newton: the three-body problem, for which King Oscar of Sweden offers a prize. When her suitor, a mathematician named Weatherburn, is accused, Vanessa embarks on an investigation that takes her across Europe to find the real culprit.
First installment of the Cambridge Mysteries series; the original title is «The Three Body Problem».
For readers of historical mystery fiction set in Victorian England, with criminal investigation plots and mathematics.
Leila Schneps is an American mathematician and fiction writer at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique working in number theory. Schneps has written general audience math books and, under the pen name Catherine Shaw, has written mathematically themed murder mysteries.
