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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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- Author
- Simon Singh
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Canada
- Published
- 1997
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780670877560
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Mathematics, Fiction, Memoir
- Rating
- 4.22 / 5 (70 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
Other editions & translations
- L'ultimo teorema di Fermat : l'avventura di un genio, di un problema matematico e dell'uomo che lo ha risolto (1999)
- El Enigma de Fermat (2004)
- Fermats letzter Satz : die abenteuerliche Geschichte eines mathematischen Rätsels (1998)
- Fermat's Enigma : The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem (2017)
- Fermat's Last Theorem : the Story of a Riddle That Confounded the World's Greatest Minds for 358 Years (1977)
- Le dernier théorème de Fermat : l'histoire de l'énigme qui a défié les plus grands esprits du monde pendant 358 ans (2000)
- El último teorema de Fermat : la historia de un enigma que confundió a las mentes más grandes del mundo durante 358 años (1999)
- L'ultimo teorema di Fermat : l'avventura di un genio, di un problema matematico e dell'uomo che lo ha risolto (2006)
- Fermat's Last Theorem : the Story of a Riddle That Confounded the World's Greatest Minds for 358 Years (1997)
- Fermat's Enigma : the Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem (1998)
- Fermats letzter Satz : die abenteuerliche Geschichte eines mathematischen Rätsels (2005)
- Fermat's Last Theorem : the Story of a Riddle That Confounded the World's Greatest Minds for 358 Years (2002)
- Fermat's Last Theorem : the Story of a Riddle That Confounded the World's Greatest Minds for 358 Years (1998)
- Fermat's Last Theorem : the Story of a Riddle That Confounded the World's Greatest Minds for 358 Years (2007)
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