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An edition of Fermat's Last Theorem: the story of a riddle that confounded the world's greatest minds for 358 years (1997)

Fermat's enigma

the quest to solve the world's greatest mathematical problem

by

  • ★★★ ★ 3.94 ·
  • 17 Ratings
  • 78 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 24 Have read

xn + yn = zn, where n represents 3, 4, 5, ...no solution "I have discovered a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain." With these words, the seventeenth-century French mathematician Pierre de Fermat threw down the gauntlet to future generations. What came to be known as Fermat's Last Theorem looked simple; proving it, however, became the Holy Grail of mathematics, baffling its finest minds for more than 350 years.

In Fermat's Enigma--based on the author's award-winning documentary film, which aired on PBS's "Nova"--Simon Singh tells the astonishingly entertaining story of the pursuit of that grail, and the lives that were devoted to, sacrificed for, and saved by it. Here is a mesmerizing tale of heartbreak and mastery that will forever change your feelings about mathematics.

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Penguin
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English
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315

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Fermat's last theorem, mathematics, number theory, elliptic curves, proof, 31.01 history of mathematics, Wiskunde, Theorema van Fermat, History, Fermatsche Vermutung, Beweis, Geschichte, Fermat-Vermutung, New York Times reviewed, Teorema di Fermat, Grand théorème de Fermat, Teorema de Fermat, Studies, Wiles, Andrew, Mathematics, Number theory, Elliptic curves, Proof, Theorema van fermat, Fermatsche vermutung, Fermat-vermutung
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Andrew Wiles, John Coates, Leonhard Euler, Sam Loyd, Ken Ribet, Pythagoras, Richard Taylor
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Princeton, Cambridge, Alexandria

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
512/.74
Library of Congress
QA244 .S56 1997

Contributors

Foreword
John Lynch

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Pagination
xviii, 315 p.
Number of pages
315

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OL32098763M
Internet Archive
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ISBN 10
0140268693
ISBN 13
9780140268690
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36691050
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