Fermat's Last Theorem
the story of a riddle that confounded the world's greates minds for 358 years
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- 384 páginas
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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. <i>Fermat's Enigma</i> contains some problems that offer a taste of the math, but it also includes limericks to give a feeling for the goofy side of mathematicians.
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Fermat's Last Theorem, Simon Singh
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- 1997
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- Título
- Fermat's Last Theorem
- Subtítulo
- the story of a riddle that confounded the world's greates minds for 358 years
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- Simon Singh
- Editorial
- Fourth Estate
- Publicado en
- 1997
- Formato
- Tapa blanda
- Páginas
- 384
- ISBN10
- 1857028376
- ISBN13
- 9781857028379
- Serie
- Etiquetas
- No ficción, Tema histórico, Historia, Historias reales, Biografías, Ciencia y Matemáticas, Ciencias naturales, Ciencia, Matemáticas, Adivinanzas y acertijos, Matemáticas y lógica, Teoría de números
- Primera publicación
- 1997
- Título original
- Fermat's Last Theorem
- Calificación
- 4,4 de 5
- Descripción
- 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. <i>Fermat's Enigma</i> contains some problems that offer a taste of the math, but it also includes limericks to give a feeling for the goofy side of mathematicians.