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040			_cEscola Canadense de Niteroi
090			_aSIN
100			_aSingh, Simon
245	1	0	_aFermat's enigma
250			_a1st. ed.
260			_aNew York
300			_a315 p. _c7 x 0.87 x 6.99 inches
362	0		_a1998
520			_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.
650		4	_aMath Operations
650		4	_aScience and Technology
650		4	_aNon-Fiction
650		4	_aScience Studies
650		4	_aMathematics (Literature)
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