Fermat's Enigma - The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem (Paperback, 1st Anchor Books Ed)

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.

General

Imprint:	Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 1998
First published:	September 1998
Authors:	Simon Singh
Foreword by:	John Lynch
Dimensions:	178 x 125 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	315
Edition:	1st Anchor Books Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-385-49362-8
Categories:	Books > Law > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > History of mathematics
LSN:	0-385-49362-2
Barcode:	9780385493628

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