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Fermat's enigma : the epic quest to solve the world's greatest mathematical problem / Simon Singh ; foreword by John Lynch.
Publication details: New York, NY : Random House/Anchor Books, 1998, 1997.Edition: 1st Anchor Books edDescription: xviii, 315 p. : ill. ; 18 cmISBN:- 9780385493628 (pbk.) :
- 0385493622 (pbk.) :
- QA244 .S55 1998
Contents:
I think I'll stop here -- The riddler -- A mathematical disgrace -- Into abstraction -- Proof by contradiction -- The secret calculation -- A slight problem -- Epilogue: grand unified mathematics.
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| QA 241 .N58 Numbers: rational and irrational. | QA 241 .S617 2006 Numbers and infinity : a historical account of mathematical concepts / | QA 241 .V26 2000 Elementary number theory / | QA 244 .S55 1998 Fermat's enigma : the epic quest to solve the world's greatest mathematical problem / | QA 247 .P6 The theory of algebraic numbers. | QA 248 .H26 Naive set theory. | QA 248 .K35 1986 Fuzzy mathematical techniques with applications / |
Originally published: New York : Walker, 1997.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-305) and index.
I think I'll stop here -- The riddler -- A mathematical disgrace -- Into abstraction -- Proof by contradiction -- The secret calculation -- A slight problem -- Epilogue: grand unified mathematics.
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