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Fermat's Last Theorem

By Simon Singh

Book information

Publisher
Fourth Estate
Year
1997
ISBN
1857025210, 9781857025217
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1157438 bytes)
Pages
384\0
Time added
2013-01-10 17:04:45
Математика;История математики

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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