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 …
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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.
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Le Dernier Théorème de Fermat
Mass Market Paperback, 304 pages
French language
Published Feb. 10, 1999 by Hachette Littérature.
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- 978-2-01-278921-0Copied ISBN!
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- 40848884
Fermat's Last Theorem
Paperback, 368 pages
Published June 5, 2002 by Fourth Estate.
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- 978-1-84115-791-7Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 70218790
Fermats letzter Satz
Paperback, 364 pages
German language
Published Nov. 11, 2000 by Dtv.
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- 978-3-423-33052-7Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 76083041
Fermat's Enigma
336 pages
English language
Published Sept. 7, 1998 by Anchor.
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- 978-0-385-49362-8Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 39261994
Fermats Gåta
Paperback, 351 pages
Swedish language
Published Nov. 11, 2005 by Pan.
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- 978-91-7263-688-0Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 185776850
Fermat's Enigma
Paperback, 315 pages
English language
Published Nov. 11, 1997 by Walker and Company.
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Le Dernier Théorème de Fermat
Paperback, 334 pages
French language
Published July 31, 2000 by J.-C. Lattès.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-7096-1854-0Copied ISBN!
Fermat's enigma
315 pages
English language
Published April 5, 1998 by Penguin.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-026869-0Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 36691050
Fermat's enigma
315 pages
English language
Published April 5, 1997 by Viking.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-670-87756-0Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 36691059
Fermat's Last Theorem = Feruma no saishu teiri
tankobon hardcover, 397 pages
Japanese language
Published Sept. 13, 1997 by www.shinchosha.co.jp.
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- 978-4-10-539301-4Copied ISBN!
El Ultimo Teorema de Fermat
Paperback
Spanish language
Published June 6, 1999 by Grupo Editorial Norma.
- ISBN:
- 978-958-04-4865-5Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 906686663
El enigma de Fermat
Paperback, 320 pages
Published March 11, 2003 by Booket.
- ISBN:
- 978-84-08-06572-2Copied ISBN!
Fermats letzter satz
Hardcover, 363 pages
German language
Published Feb. 1, 1998 by Carl Hanser.
- ISBN:
- 978-3-446-19313-0Copied ISBN!
Fermat's last theorem
340 pages
English language
Published Nov. 11, 2007 by Harper Perennial.
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- 978-0-00-724181-1Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 212226577
Fermats letzter Satz
paperback
German language
Published by DTV Deutscher Taschenbuch.
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- 978-3-423-19518-8Copied ISBN!
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