Fermat's Last Theorem

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.

המשפט הראשון: It was the most important mathematics lecture of the century.

שנה

1997

שפה

English

סדרה

Stranger than -- 6

הוצאה

Harper Perennial

מהדורות

32

דירוג קוראים

4.0 / 5 (24)

עמודים

340

ISBN

9780007241811

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