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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38412.Fermat_s_Enigma_The_Epic_Quest_to_Solve_the_World_s_Greatest_Mathematical_Problem?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1169153522m/38412.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38412.Fermat_s_Enigma_The_Epic_Quest_to_Solve_the_World_s_Greatest_Mathematical_Problem?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/10894.Simon_Singh">Simon Singh</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2495548?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 3 of 5 stars<br/>After seeing the NOVA documentary entitled "The Proof," I wanted to learn more about one of the greatest human accomplishments of the 20th century. Although it is very much written for a general audience and is thin on technical details, it does offer some fun brain teaser type numerical puzzles along the way with solutions in the appendix. It also does a fairly good job bringing in all the nut-job, duelling, suicidal, and obsessive tendencies of the various mathematician's that contributed to solving the puzzle. It hangs together all right, but still has the flavor of amateurism. That doesn't mean I didn't love it though, it's just not a great work of literature. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/159869?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>