Fermat's Last Theorem - Dry as Dust?? Far From it.

Fermat's Last Theorem by Simon Singh

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


Being a scientist of long standing and loving all aspects of science and maths, Fermat's Last Theorem in itself was a wonderful mystery, what I would give to see Fermat's note book with a note in the margin about cubic numbers as opposed to squares. A very trite remark, too lengthy to write in the margin so it is elsewhere, and no one has ever found it or managed to prove his statement, until - - - this book is a brilliant read, you would think it would be as dry as dust, but no! It is a superb account of the proof of the last theorem from Fermat's notebook to be proven. The only thing that still niggles at me, although the mathematical proof is fabulous, it uses modern techniques not available to Fermat, so it is proven but how the hell did Fermat do it??????
A brilliant book, beautifully written a tremendous historical question answered in a very modern way, fabulous, well done for readability.



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