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Fermat's Last Theorem

the story of a riddle that confounded the world's greates minds for 358 years

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When Andrew Wiles of Princeton University announced a solution of Fermat's last theorem in 1993, it electrified the world of mathematics. After a flaw was discovered in the proof, Wiles had to work for another year--he had already labored in solitude for seven years--to establish that he had solved the 350-year-old problem. Simon Singh's book is a lively, comprehensible explanation of Wiles's work and of the star-, trauma-, and wacko-studded history of Fermat's last theorem. <i>Fermat's Enigma</i> contains some problems that offer a taste of the math, but it also includes limericks to give a feeling for the goofy side of mathematicians.

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Fermat's Last Theorem, Simon Singh

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1997
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Titel
Fermat's Last Theorem
Untertitel
the story of a riddle that confounded the world's greates minds for 358 years
Sprache
Englisch
Autor*innen
Simon Singh
Erscheinungsdatum
1997
Einband
Paperback
Seitenzahl
384
ISBN10
1857028376
ISBN13
9781857028379
Reihe
Beschreibung
When Andrew Wiles of Princeton University announced a solution of Fermat's last theorem in 1993, it electrified the world of mathematics. After a flaw was discovered in the proof, Wiles had to work for another year--he had already labored in solitude for seven years--to establish that he had solved the 350-year-old problem. Simon Singh's book is a lively, comprehensible explanation of Wiles's work and of the star-, trauma-, and wacko-studded history of Fermat's last theorem. <i>Fermat's Enigma</i> contains some problems that offer a taste of the math, but it also includes limericks to give a feeling for the goofy side of mathematicians.