Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem by John Lynch, Simon Singh

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

John Lynch, Simon Singh

306 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction history mathematics science adventurous slow-paced
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"I have discovered a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain."With these words, the seventeenth-century French mathematician Pierre de Fermat threw down the gauntlet to future generations.  What...

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