Fermat's Last Theorem
First published 1997
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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.
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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.
Source: Open Library
Book information
- Author
- Simon Singh
- First published
- 1997
- Edition
- Fermat's last theorem
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial
- Language
- ENG
- ISBN-13
- 9780007241811