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This is the kind of book that we non mathematical minds can easily digest and love. It gives you an epic scope of the number of minds that it takes to build new ideas. I doubt if Fermat had actually solved this theorem correctly, but this is impossible to prove. Fermat's theorem however was not impossible to prove! It was solved! Thanks to the efforts of many men (and women!) over many lifetimes and one final man who had the determination and persistence to finish the unthinkable. This book has
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"My butter, garcon, is writ large in!"
a diner was heard to be chargin'.
"I HAD to write there,"
exclaimed waiter Pierre,
"I couldn't find room in the margarine."
Ever since I recently stumbled upon the documentary called 'The Proof' I've become extremely interested (almost obsessed) in Wiles's proof of Fermat's last Theorem and have been searching for a good book that would provide me with a real, mathematical explanation of it (mainly the connection between modular forms and elliptic curves), becau ...more
a diner was heard to be chargin'.
"I HAD to write there,"
exclaimed waiter Pierre,
"I couldn't find room in the margarine."
Ever since I recently stumbled upon the documentary called 'The Proof' I've become extremely interested (almost obsessed) in Wiles's proof of Fermat's last Theorem and have been searching for a good book that would provide me with a real, mathematical explanation of it (mainly the connection between modular forms and elliptic curves), becau ...more
Reads like a mystery. The last time I enjoyed a book about an equation so much, I was reading Lawrence Krauss' Universe From Nothing. Even though Fermat's proof was not as life changing as Einstein's constant, it was still fairly exciting to see the passion of those who tried to solve it.
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Not only is it a how-to-prove-it story, it also tells a marginal story about logicians, mathematicians throughout three centuries, including Leonhard Euler, Sophie Germain, Betrand Russell, Augustin Louis Cauchy, etc.
"The impressive labour undertaken to solve a simple yet seemingly impossible equation"
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