Brossura, 334 pagine
lingua French
Pubblicato il 31 Luglio 2000 da J.-C. Lattès, JC Lattès.
Le Dernier Théorème de Fermat (Paperback, French language, 2000, J.-C. Lattès, JC Lattès)
Brossura, 334 pagine
lingua French
Pubblicato il 31 Luglio 2000 da J.-C. Lattès, JC Lattès.
xn + yn = zn, where n represents 3, 4, 5, ...no solution "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 came to be known as Fermat's Last Theorem looked simple; proving it, however, became the Holy Grail of mathematics, baffling its finest minds for more than 350 years.
In Fermat's Enigma--based on the author's award-winning documentary film, which aired on PBS's "Nova"--Simon Singh tells the astonishingly entertaining story of the pursuit of that grail, and the lives that were devoted to, sacrificed for, and saved by it. Here is a mesmerizing tale of heartbreak and mastery that will forever change your feelings about mathematics.