Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem
Singh, Simon
ISBN 10: 0670877565 ISBN 13: 9780670877560
Published by Viking Press/Penguin, New York, 1997
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Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem, Singh, Simon. Published by Viking/Penguin, Toronto, Boston, New York, 1997. First Edition. 315pp. with appendices, index, illustrated. Foreword by John Lynch. Black boards with copper titles, yellow endpapers. Volume is in fine, unread condition and housed in a fine clipped dustjacket. 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. Seller Inventory # 004719
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Title: Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the...
Publisher: Viking Press/Penguin, New York
Publication Date: 1997
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrator: Illustrated
Condition: Fine
Edition: 1st Edition