Fermat's Enigma by Simon Singh
xn + yn = zn, where n represents 3, 4, 5, .no solutionI 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.
Simon Singh received his Ph.D. in particle physics from the University of Cambridge. A former BBC producer, he directed the BAFTA Award-winning documentary Fermat's Last Theorem and wrote Fermat's Enigma, the bestselling book on the same subject. His bestseller The Code Book was the basis for the Channel 4 series The Science of Secrecy. His third book, Big Bang, was also a bestseller, and Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts About Alternative Medicine, written with Edzard Ernst, gained widespread attention. Singh lives in London.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780802713315 |
| ISBN 10 | 0802713319 |
| Title | Fermat's Enigma |
| Author | Simon Singh |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Walker & Co |
| Year published | 1997-11-01 |
| Number of pages | 315 |
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