FERMAT'S ENIGMA: THE EPIC QUEST TO SOLVE THE WORLD'S GREATEST MATHEMATICAL PROBLEM

SINGH, SIMON.;.LYNCH, JOHN FOREWORD (fermat, Pierre de about)

ISBN 10: 0385493622 / ISBN 13: 9780385493628

Published by Anchor Doubleday 1998,October, NY, 1998

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VERY GOOD CONDITION .clean, solid, bright ; Orange cover titles on black paper covers.showing mans face inside orange triangle."Xn+Yn=Zn where n represents 3, 4, 5,.no soslution" .many photos & drawings of important people in text. .author photo inner back cover. ; 315 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: FERMAT'S ENIGMA: THE EPIC QUEST TO SOLVE THE WORLD'S GREATEST MATHEMATICAL PROBLEM
• Publisher: Anchor Doubleday 1998,October, NY
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385493622
• ISBN 13: 9780385493628
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Illustrated by Bridge, andy cover illust
• Edition: First Edition Thus; 13579108642pt line.
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Simon Singh received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Cambridge. A BBC producer, he directed and coproduced an award-winning documentary film on Fermat's Last Theorem that aired on PBS's "Nova" series. He is also the author of the bestselling The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography. He lives in London, England.