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100 1 $aSingh, Simon.
245 10 $aFermat's enigma :$bthe epic quest to solve the world's greatest mathematical problem /$cSimon Singh ; foreword by John Lynch.
250 $a1st Anchor Books ed.
260 $aNew York :$bAnchor Books,$c1998.
300 $axviii, 315 p. :$bill. ;$c18 cm.
500 $aOriginally published: New York : Walker, 1997.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 301-305) and index.
520 $axn + 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.
505 00 $g1.$t"I Think I'll Stop Here"$g1 --$g2.$tThe Riddler$g35 --$g3.$tA Mathematical Disgrace$g71 --$g4.$tInto Abstraction$g121 --$g5.$tProof by Contradiction$g171 --$g6.$tThe Secret Calculation$g205 --$g7.$tA Slight Problem$g255 --$gEpilogue$tGrand Unified Mathematics$g279 --$tSuggestions for Further Reading$g301 --$tPicture Credits$g306.
650 0 $aFermat's last theorem.
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