Fermat's Last Theorem : The Story of a Riddle That Confounded the World's Greatest Minds for 358 Years

Singh, Simon

ISBN 10: 1857026691 / ISBN 13: 9781857026696

Edité par HarperCollins Publishers Limited, 1998

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Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Fermat's Last Theorem : The Story of a Riddle That Confounded the World's Greatest Minds for 358 Years
• Éditeur: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
• Date de parution: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1857026691
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781857026696
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• Édition: 1st.
• État de l'article: Good

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Synopsis

In 1963, a schoolboy browsing in his local library stumbled across a great mathematical problem: Fermat's Last Theorem, a puzzle that every child can now understand, but which has baffled mathematicians for over 300 years. Aged just ten, Andrew Wiles dreamed he would crack it. Many people had tried before Wiles and failed, including an 18th-century philanderer who was killed in a duel. An 18th-century Frenchwoman made a major breakthrough in solving the riddle, but she had to attend maths lectures at the Ecole Polytechnique disguised as a man. This is the story of the puzzle that has confounded mathematicians since the 17th century. The solution of the Theorem is one of the most important mathematical developments of the 20th century.

À propos de l?auteur

Simon Singh is a science journalist and TV producer. Having completed his Ph.D. at Cambridge he worked from 1991 to 1997 at the BBC producing Tomorrow’s World and co-directing the BAFTA award-winning documentary Fermat’s Last Theorem for the Horizon series. In 1997, he published Fermat’s Last Theorem, which was a no 1 best-seller in Britain and translated into 22 languages. In 1999, he published The Code Book.