Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem
Simon Singh, (Foreword) John Lynch
Language: English
Published by Anchor Books, 1998
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The astonishingly entertaining story of the pursuit of that grail of grails: Fermat's Enigma - and the lives that were devoted to, sacrificed for, and saved by it. Illus., 21 halftonesplus diagrams. 336p. Pap.
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- Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem
- Author
- Simon Singh, (Foreword) John Lynch
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- Anchor Books
- Publication year
- 1998
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- Good
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- Paperback
- Language
- English
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- 0385493622
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- 9780385493628
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"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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