Fermat's Enigma: the Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem - Simon Singh - Bücher - Anchor - 9780385493628 - 8. September 1998
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Fermat's Enigma: the Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem 1st Anchor Books Ed edition

Simon Singh

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Fermat's Enigma: the Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem 1st Anchor Books Ed edition

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.

Medien Bücher     Taschenbuch   (Buch mit Softcover und geklebtem Rücken)
Erscheinungsdatum 8. September 1998
ISBN13 9780385493628
Verlag Anchor
Seitenanzahl 315
Maße 125 × 179 × 22 mm   ·   235 g
Sprache Englisch  
Mitwirkende John Lynch

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