Fermat's Enigma - 9780385493628
Un libro in lingua di Simon Singh edito da Anchor Books, 1998
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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.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Fermat's Enigma
- Sottotitolo: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Simon Singh
- Editore: Anchor Books
- Collana: Anchor Books (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 01 Ottobre '98
- Genere: MATHEMATICS
- Argomento: Fermat's last theorem
- Pagine: 336
- Dimensioni mm: 184 x 127 x 25
- ISBN-10: 0385493622
- EAN-13: 9780385493628