Compelling, dramatic, and entirely accessible, Fermat\'s Enigma is a mesmerizing tale of heartbreak and mastery, and one that will forever change the reader\'s feelings about mathematics.
Here is a mesmerizing tale of heartbreak and mastery that will forever change your feelings about mathematics..
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.
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.
With these words, the seventeenth-century French mathematician Pierre de Fermat threw down the gauntlet to future generations. 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. 21 illustrations.
Simon Singh co-produced an award-winning documentary film on Fermat\'s Last Theorem that aired on PBS\'s Nova series.
Compelling, dramatic, and entirely accessible, Fermat\'s Enigma is a mesmerizing tale of heartbreak and mastery, and one that will forever change the reader\'s feelings about mathematics
