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‘I have a truly marvellous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.’ It was with these words, written in the 1630s, that Pierre de Fermat intrigued and infuriated the mathematics community. For over 350 years, proving Fermat’s Last Theorem was the most notorious unsolved mathematical problem, a puzzle whose basics most children could grasp but whose solution eluded the greatest minds in the world. In 1993, after years of secret toil, Englishman Andrew Wiles announced to an astounded audience that he had cracked Fermat’s Last Theorem. He had no idea of the nightmare that lay ahead. In ‘Fermat’s Last Theorem’ Simon Singh has crafted a remarkable tale of intellectual endeavour spanning three centuries, and a moving testament to the obsession, sacrifice and extraordinary determination of Andrew Wiles: one man against all the odds. Title Page 2 Dedication 3 Contents 4 Foreword 5 Preface 10 1 – ‘I Think I’ll Stop Here’ 13 2 – The Riddler 36 3 – A Mathematical Disgrace 59 4 – Into Abstraction 92 5 – Proof by Contradiction 125 6 – The Secret Calculation 144 7 – A Slight Problem 173 Epilogue – Grand Unified Mathematics 190 Appendices 194 Suggestions for

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Author

Simon Singh

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780007381999

Category

science

Subjects

Mathematics, Fiction, Memoir

Rating

4.22 / 5 (200 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14