Fermats Letzter Satz by Simon Singh
The Story of a Riddle That Confounded the World's Greatest Minds for More Than Three Hundred Years
A popular-science narrative that traces the centuries-long quest to resolve the deceptively simple number-theory problem of whether nonzero integers can satisfy a^n + b^n = c^n for n>2, following the lives and ideas of many mathematicians, the emergence of concepts like elliptic curves and modular forms, and the formulation of the modularity conjecture that paved the way for the eventual proof by Andrew Wiles; the book blends historical detective work, personal stories and accessible explanations of the mathematics to show how modern theory solved a historic puzzle.
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- 1997
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- Fermat's Last Theorem
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