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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 epic quest to solve the world's greatest mathematical problem

by

  • ★★★ ★ 3.9 (18 ratings) ·
  • 91 Want to read
  • 26 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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Walker
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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

People

Andrew Wiles, John Coates, Leonhard Euler, Sam Loyd, Ken Ribet, Pythagoras, Richard Taylor

Places

Princeton, Cambridge, Alexandria

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Fermat's last theorem: the story of a riddle that confounded the world's greatest minds for 358 years
2007, Harper Perennial
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El enigma de Fermat
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Le Dernier Théorème de Fermat
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Fermats letzter Satz: Die abenteuerliche geschichte eines mathematischen rätsels
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El Ultimo Teorema de Fermat
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Fermat's enigma: the quest to solve the world's greatest mathematical problem
1998, Penguin
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1997, Walker
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1997, Viking
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-305) and index.

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
512/.74
Library of Congress
QA244 .S55 1997

Contributors

Foreword
John Lynch

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Pagination
xviii, 315 p. :
Number of pages
315

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OL674585M
Internet Archive
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0802713319
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97020748
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36729
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