Fermat's Enigma
The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem
xn + yn = zn, where n represents 3, 4, 5, ...no solutionI 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 g…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Lynch, John
- ISBN: 978-0-385-49362-8
- EAN: 9780385493628
- Produktnummer: 19341986
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
- Seitenangabe: 336 S.
- Masse: H17.8 cm x B12.3 cm x D2.2 cm 235 g
- Gewicht: 235
Über den Autor
Simon Singh received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Cambridge. A BBC producer, he directed and coproduced an award-winning documentary film on Fermat's Last Theorem that aired on PBS's Nova series. He is also the author of the bestselling The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography. He lives in London, England.
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