Fermat’s Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World’s Greatest Mathematical Puzzl
Author: Simon Singh
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, yet proving it would baffle the finest minds for more than 350 years, and would become the Holy Grail of mathematics. In Fermat’s Enigma, Simon Singh tells the astonishingly entertaining….Read More
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