Fermat’s Last Theorem
the story of a riddle that confounded the world's greatest minds for 358 years
$21.74
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
14 July 2002
Summary
The Enigma of Fermat’s Last Theorem: A 350-Year Quest for Proof
‘I have a truly marvellous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.’
It was with these words, written in the 1630s, that Pierre de Fermat intrigued and infuriated the mathematics community. For over 350 years, proving Fermat’s Last Theorem was the most notorious unsolved mathematical problem, a puzzle whose basics most children could grasp but whose solution eluded the greate…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781841157917 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1841157910 |
| Author: | Simon Singh |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Imprint: | Fourth Estate Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 14 July 2002 |
| Weight: | 240g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 23mm |
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About The Author
Simon Singh
Simon Singh is a science journalist and TV producer. Having completed his PhD at Cambridge he worked from 1991 to 1997 at the BBC producing Tomorrow’s World and co-directing the BAFTA award-winning documentary Fermat’s Last Theorem for the Horizon series. In 1997, he published Fermat’s Last Theorem, which was a no 1 best-seller in Britain and translated into 22 languages. In 1999, he published The Code Book which was also an international bestseller and was the basis for the Channel 4 series The Science of Secrecy.
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