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  Book Title: Fermat's
Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem	 	
  Book Author:  Simon Singh, John Lynch
   Hardcover: 315 pages
   Publisher: Walker &
Company; 1st edition (November 1997)
   Language: English
   ISBN-10: 0802713319
   ISBN-13:
978-0802713315
  
  Book Description
  Publication Date: November 1997
  ‘I have a truly marvellous demonstration of this
proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.’
  It was with these words, written in the 1630s,
that Pierre de Fermat intrigued and infuriated the mathematics community. For over 350 years, proving Fermat’s
Last Theorem was the most notorious unsolved mathematical problem, a puzzle whose basics most children could grasp but
whose solution eluded the greatest minds in the world. In 1993, after years of secret toil, Englishman Andrew Wiles
announced to an astounded audience that he had cracked Fermat’s Last Theorem. He had no idea of the nightmare
that lay ahead.
  In ‘Fermat’s Last Theorem’ Simon Singh has crafted a remarkable tale of
intellectual endeavour spanning three centuries, and a moving testament to the obsession, sacrifice and extraordinary
determination of Andrew Wiles: one man against all the odds.
  
  Editorial Reviews
  Amazon.com Review
  When Andrew Wiles of Princeton University announced a solution of Fermat's last theorem in 1993 it electrified the
world of mathematics. After a flaw was discovered in the proof, Wiles had to work for another year--he had already
labored in solitude for seven years--to establish that he had solved the 350-year-old problem. Simon Singh's book is a
lively, comprehensible explanation of Wiles's work and of the star-, trauma-, and wacko-studded history of Fermat's last
theorem. Fermat's Enigma contains some problems that offer a taste for the math, but it also includes limericks to give
a feeling for the goofy side of mathematicians.
  
  From School Library
Journal
  The riveting story of a mathematical problem that sprang from the study of the Pythagorean
theorem developed in ancient Greece. The book follows mathematicians and scientists throughout history as they searched
for new mathematical truths. In the 17th century, a French judicial assistant and amateur mathematician, Pierre De
Fermat, produced many brilliant ideas in the field of number theory. The Greeks were aware of many whole number
solutions to the Pythagorean theorem, where the sum of two perfect squares is a perfect square. Fermat stated that no
whole number solutions exist if higher powers replace the squares in this equation. He left a message in the margin of a
notebook that he had a proof, but that there was insufficient space there to write it down. His note was found
posthumously, but the solution remained a mystery for 350 years. Finally, after working in isolation for eight years,
Andrew Wiles, a young British mathematician at Princeton University, published a proof in 1995. Although this famous
question has been resolved, many more remain unsolved, and new problems continually arise to challenge modern minds.
This vivid account is fascinating reading for anyone interested in mathematics, its history, and the passionate quest
for solutions to unsolved riddles. The book includes 19 black-and-white photos of mathematicians and occasional sketches
of ancient mathematicians as well as diagrams of formulas. The illustrations help to humanize the subject and add to the
readability.A. Penny Stevens, Centreville Regional Library, Centreville, VA
 

  From Library Journal
  For over 350 years, despite the efforts of
many ingenious mathematicians, the postulate known as Fermat's Last Theorem remained unproven. It seemed that the 1993
solution proposed by Princeton professor Andrew Wiles would become another casualty until he rescued it with a brilliant
insight. Singh, a physicist who also directed a documentary film on this topic, relates the theorem's story over 2500
years, moving from ancient Greece, where it was first conceived, to its recent, triumphant solution. Through his
engaging renderings of the mathematicians who took on Fermat's challenge over the years, the author captures the joys
and frustrations of this quest for an extremely elusive proof. Readers with a high school-level knowledge of number
theory will have no trouble following the text. Comparatively, Amir Aczel's Fermat's Last Theorem (LJ 10/15/96) is more
concise (it can be read in two hours) and somewhat easier to understand, but Singh's book has more perspective and
builds to a truly engrossing climax. It's a mathematical page-turner.?Gregg Sapp, Univ. of
Miami Lib., Coral Gables, Fla.
  
  From Kirkus Reviews
  The proof of Fermat's Last Theorem has been called the mathematical event of the century; this popular account puts
the discovery in perspective for non-mathematicians. As one of the producers of the BBC Horizons show on how the
300-year-old puzzle was solved, Singh had ample opportunity to interview Andrew Wiles, the Princeton professor who made
the historic breakthrough. As a schoolboy in England, Wiles stumbled across a popular account of Fermat's puzzle: the
assertion that no pair of numbers raised to a power higher than two can add up to a third number raised to the same
power. Singh traces the roots of the problem in ancient geometry, from the school of Pythagoras (whose famous theorem is
clearly its inspiration) up to the flowering of mathematics in the Renaissance, when Fermat, a French judge who dabbled
in number theory, stated the problem and claimed to have found a proof of it. Generations of the finest mathematicians
failed to corroborate his claim. Singh gives a colorful and generally easy-to-follow summary of much of the mathematical
theory that was generated in attempts to prove Fermat's conjecture. Finally, in the 1950s, two Japanese mathematicians
came up with a conjecture concerning elliptical equations that, at the time, seemed to have nothing to do with Fermat's
problem. But it was the Taniyama-Shimuru conjecture that gave Wiles the opening to solve the problem after working in
isolation for seven years. He announced his proof at a famous mathematical congress in Cambridge, England--a truly great
moment in mathematical history. Then a flaw in the proof presented itself- -and Wiles went back to work for over a year
to patch it up. Finally he succeeded, and the greatest problem in mathematical history was laid to rest. A good overview
of one of the great intellectual puzzles of modern history. (photos and line drawings) 
  
  Reviews
  I strongly recommend this book to anyone wishing to catch a glimpse of
what is one of the most important and ill-understood, but oldest, cultural activities of humanity. Although I do have
some minor reservations about the book (mainly to do with a few places where the author's descriptions of mathematical
examples cause a little confusion because of minor lacunae), I believe it to be an excellent and very worthwhile account
of one of the most dramatic and moving events of the century. -- The New York Times Book
Review, Roger Penrose
  
  "An excellent account of one of the most dramatic and moving events of
the century."--Sir Roger Penrose, New York Times Book Review
  
  "It is
hard to imagine a more gripping account of...this centuries-long drama of ingenious failures, crushed hopes, fatal
duels, and suicides."--Jim Holt, The Wall Street Journal
  
  "Though
Singh may not ask us to bring too much algebra to the table, he does expect us to appreciate a good detective
story."--Boston Sunday Globe
  
  "The history of mathematics comes
alive even for those who dread balancing their checkbooks."--Publishers Weekly
  
  "Singh captures the joys and frustrations of this quest for an extremely elusive proof...and builds to a
truly engrossing climax. It's a mathematical page-turner."
  --Library
Journal
  
  From the Inside Flap
  xn + yn = zn, where
n represents 3, 4, 5, ...no solution
  
  "I have discovered a truly marvelous demonstration of this
proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain."
  
  With these words, the seventeenth-century French
mathematician Pierre de Fermat threw down the gauntlet to future generations. What came to be known as Fermat's Last
Theorem looked simple; proving it, however, became the Holy Grail of mathematics, baffling its finest minds for more
than 350 years. In Fermat's Enigma--based on the author's award-winning documentary film, which aired on PBS's
"Nova"--Simon Singh tells the astonishingly entertaining story of the pursuit of that grail, and the lives that were
devoted to, sacrificed for, and saved by it. Here is a mesmerizing tale of heartbreak and mastery that will forever
change your feelings about mathematics. 
  
  About the Author
 
Simon Singh received his PhD from the University of Cambridge. A former BBC
producer, he directed the BAFTA Award-winning documentary film 'Fermat's Last Theorem', about Andrew Wiles and the
world's most famous maths problem, and he wrote the book of the same title. He is also the author of 'The Code Book' and
'Big Bang'. 						

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