01403 a2200241 4500 128123 9780385493628 Escola Canadense de Niteroi SIN Singh, Simon Fermat's enigma 1st. ed. New York 315 p. 7 x 0.87 x 6.99 inches 1998 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. Math Operations Science and Technology Non-Fiction Science Studies Mathematics (Literature) BK 0 0 0 0 12.10 12.10 2024-02-09 0 SIN A24321 2024-02-09 21:25:14 2024-02-09 BK 128123 128123