FERMAT'S ENIGMA: THE EPIC QUEST TO SOLVE THE WORLD'S GREATEST MATHEMATICAL PROBLEM
SINGH, SIMON.;.LYNCH, JOHN FOREWORD (fermat, Pierre de about)
Language: English
Published by Anchor Doubleday 1998,October, NY, 1998
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- Title
- FERMAT'S ENIGMA: THE EPIC QUEST TO SOLVE THE WORLD'S GREATEST MATHEMATICAL PROBLEM
- Author
- SINGH, SIMON.;.LYNCH, JOHN FOREWORD (fermat, Pierre de about)
- Publisher
- Anchor Doubleday 1998,October, NY
- Publication year
- 1998
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0385493622
- ISBN 13
- 9780385493628
- Illustrator
- Illustrated by Bridge, andy cover illust
- Edition
- First Edition Thus; 13579108642pt line.
- Dimensions
- 7.0 X 4.9 X 1.6 inches
"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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