Name: Fermat's Enigma
ISBN: 9780385493628

Simon Singh

The story of Fermat's Last Theorem, devised by the seventeenth-century French mathematician Pierre de Fermat, recounts the struggles of three and a half centuries of scientists to devise a proof for it.

The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem

Fermat's Enigma

Fermat's Last Theorem

lala

I genuinely thought I was buying a fiction book when I bought it. Turns out I was dead wrong. This is one of the best non-fiction book I read this year. It started with a simple theorem: alike Pythagorean Theorem, but immensely difficult to proof. This book tells the story of how Andrew Wiles, a mathematician from Princeton who proved Fermat's Last Theorem. Structurally, the book explains the development of mathematics from the Ancient Greece to today. It started with Pythagorean theorem, and then to Diophantus, whose book, Arithmetica becomes a guide for the amateur mathematician, Fermat. This book also delves into the live of Fermat, and different mathematicians whose whole lives tried to prove Fermat's Theorem. In addition to explaining the development of mathematics historically, Singh is also able to create a mathematical narrative that seems "understandable" for layperson like me. This is a very good read and I'd recommend it to everyone!

Gavin

Good. Lucid in many places ("any logic which relies on a conjecture is conjecture"). Does well in using plain language to communicate some of the exciting complexity and dismaying complication of higher maths (but not as well as Kanigel on Ramanujan).

Bassel Katamish

Brilliant journey through the history of Mathematics culminating with one of the most remarkable intellectual achievements of the 20th century. Anyone who thinks math isn’t exciting should give this a read.

Sophie Machray

Sagar Rathna Sabapathy

Kiran Kumar M R

the story of a riddle that confounded the world's greatest minds for 358 years

Fermat's last theorem

Pedro Figueiredo

Suyash Goylit

Ned Summers 

Stefan Ladstätter-Thaa

Mher Alaverdyan

Luca Masters

Jens Madsen

Jiahao Chen

L'ultimo teorema di Fermat

Stefano Picciolo

Sarthak Choudhary

Declan Clarke

Robert Spektor

Pratul

Le Dernier Théorème de Fermat

OLIVIER VALETTE

Alison

Mutter

Fermat's Enigma The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem

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