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If only the margin had been wider! For more than 300 years, mathematicians labored to crack the secret of Fermat's Last Theorem, without any success. Finally, in 1995, a Princeton-based mathematician named Andrew Wiles solved the riddle. Amir Aczel's account of this brainteaser and its solution is an irresistible read. And for mathematical dolts--like myself, for instance--it includes a concise, profusely illustrated history of mathematical theory from the Bronze Age to our own fin-de-siecle.
"Aczel maps the strange, beautiful byways of modern mathematical thought in ways the layperson can grasp."
--Publishers Weekly
"Aczel does a superb job . . . A mathematical bonbon of a book."
--The New Yorker
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