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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
- Singh, Simon
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Anchor Books
- Published
- 1997
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780525435327
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Mathematics, Fiction, Memoir
- Rating
- 4.22 / 5 (16,113 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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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