Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem
of Simon Singh
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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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- Format Paperback
- Pages 315 pages
- Publisher Anchor
- Publication Date September 8th 1998
- First Publication 09/08/97
- Language English
- ISBN 9780385493628
- Edition Not informed
- Category Science & Technology
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