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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.
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- Author
- Fermat, Pierre de;Singh, Simon
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers;Harper Perennial
- Published
- 1977
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780007381999
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Mathematics, Fiction, Memoir
- Rating
- 4.22 / 5 (200 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 (1997)
- Fermat's Enigma : The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem (2017)
- 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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