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Simon Singh

Fermat's Enigma

The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem

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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… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-525-43532-7
  • EAN: 9780525435327
  • Produktnummer: 22176429
  • Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
  • Seitenangabe: 336 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 47'523 KB

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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