01329    a2200205   4500001000700000020001800007040003200025100001700057245002000074250001400094260001300108300003500121362000900156520084600165650002001011650002701031650001601058650002001074650002901094128123  a9780385493628  cEscola Canadense de Niteroi  aSingh, Simon10aFermat's enigma  a1st. ed.   aNew York  a315 p.c7 x 0.87 x 6.99 inches0 a1998  axn + 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. 4aMath Operations 4aScience and Technology 4aNon-Fiction 4aScience Studies 4aMathematics (Literature)