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Around 1637, the French mathematician Pierre de Fermat wrote that he had found a way to prove a seemingly simple statement: while many square numbers can be broken down into the sum of two other squares - for example, 25 (five squared) equals nine (three squared) plus 16 (four squared) - the same can never be done for cubes or any higher powers. This book provides an account of how Fermat's solution was lost, the consequent struggle by mathematicians to solve this scientific mystery and how the solution was finally found in the 1990s.Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Books LTD
ISBN-139780140267082
eBay Product ID (ePID)87646455
Product Key Features
Number of Pages160 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameFermat's Last Theorem: Unlocking the Secret of an Ancient Mathematical Problem
Publication Year1998
SubjectScience, Mathematics
TypeTextbook
AuthorAmir D. Azcel
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height198 mm
Item Weight154 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorAmir D. Azcel