Fermat's Enigma (eBook)

Simon Singh (Autor)

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2017
336 Seiten
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group (Verlag)
978-0-525-43532-7 (ISBN)

Infos

xn + yn = zn, where n represents 3, 4, 5, ...no solution"e;I have discovered a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain."e;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 "e;Nova"e;--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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.3.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Geschichte der Mathematik
• ISBN-10: 0-525-43532-8 / 0525435328
• ISBN-13: 978-0-525-43532-7 / 9780525435327