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Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem

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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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  • Sep 8, 1998 Pub Date:
  • 9780385493628 ISBN-13:
  • 0385493622 ISBN-10:
  • English Language
  • 6.99 in * 0.87 in * 4.87 in Dimensions:
  • 1 lb Weight: