Xfermat S Last Theorem Pb  -  Simon Singh

KORTE INHOUD

When Andrew Wiles of Princeton University announced a solution of Fermat's last theorem in 1993, it electrified the world of mathematics. After a flaw was discovered in the proof, Wiles had to work for another year--he had already labored in solitude for seven years--to establish that he had solved the 350-year-old problem. Simon Singh's book is a lively, comprehensible explanation of Wiles's work and of the star-, trauma-, and wacko-studded history of Fermat's last theorem. Fermat's Enigma contains some pr...
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2011 Uitgever: Harper & Collins Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0007902492 ISBN-13: 9780007902491