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Fermat's enigma: the epic quest to solve the world's greatest mathematical problem

By Singh , Simon

Book information

Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Anchor Books
ISBN
9780385493628, 9780525435327, 0385493622
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
47 MB (48779096 bytes)
Edition
1. Anchor books ed
Pages
xviii, 315 s\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Fermat's last theorem;Fermats gåta;Fermats gåta

Description

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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