Fermat's last theorem: the story of a riddle that confounded the world's greatest minds for 358 years

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This is the extraordinary story of the solving of a puzzle that has confounded mathematicians since the 17th century. The solution of Fermat's Last Theorem is the most important mathematical development of the 20th century. In 1963, a schoolboy browsing in his local library stumbled across the world's greatest mathematical problem: Fermat's Last Theorem, a puzzle that every child can understand but which has baffled mathematicians for over 300 years. Aged just ten, Andrew Wiles dreamed that he w...Vis mer

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Fermat's last theorem

Pocket · 1997

Fermat's last theorem

Pocket · 1998