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Book details of 'Fermat's Enigma : The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem'
| Title | Fermat's Enigma : The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem |
| Author(s) | Simon Singh, John Lynch |
| ISBN | 0385493622 |
| Language | English |
| Published | September 1998 |
| Publisher | Bantam Books |
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Reviewer amazon.com wrote:When Andrew Wiles of Princeton University announced a solution of Fermat's last theorem in 1993 it electrified the world of mathematics. After a flaw was discovered in the proof, Wiles had to work for another year--he had already labored in solitude for seven years--to establish that he had solved the 350-year-old problem. Simon Singh's book is a lively, comprehensible explanation of Wiles's work and of the star-, trauma-, and wacko-studded history of Fermat's last theorem. Fermat's Enigma contains some problems that offer a taste for the math, but it also includes limericks to give a feeling for the goofy side of mathematicians.
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