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Used Book - Fermat's Enigma (PB)

by Simon Singh (Author), John Lynch (Foreword)

Paperback, Used-Very Good

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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