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

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

Format:  Paperback,

336 pages

Edition: Anchor Books

Publisher: Random House Inc

Publish Date: Sep 1998

ISBN-13: 9780385493628

ISBN-10: 0385493622

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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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Publisher: Random House Inc
Publish Date: Sep 1998
ISBN-13: 9780385493628
ISBN-10: 0385493622
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 336
Shipping Weight (in pounds): 0.52
Product in Inches (L x W x H): 4.92 x 0.88 x 7.06

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