the story of a riddle that confounded the world's greatest minds for 358 years
Edición de la obra Fermat's Last Theorem
| Autor | Simon Singh |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Harper Perennial |
| Fecha de publicación | 2007 |
| Lugar | London, New York |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 340 |
| ISBN-13 | 9780007241811 |
| ISBN-10 | 000724181X |
| OCLC | 212226577 |
| Serie | Stranger than -- 6 · Stranger than -- 6. |
| Número de Cutter |
S617fxn + 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.