This is the first book written by Simon singh and a best seller.
Simon gives a lucid description of the journey to the conquest of the theorem...
Its really a historical book... describing the journey from Greeks, the formation of the mathematical concepts, to the proof of the theorem. This book gives a nice insight into the formation of the problem and the evolution...
Simon as usual has made it really interesting with an awesome narration... The book gives an insight into the mathematical world and into the lifes of a lot of mathematicians, some how died young others who challenged athority and gave a whole new perspective...
The fermat's last theorem was unconquered until the last decade... it has challenged the mathematicians for more than 250 years... so that shows what it meant to conquer it... doesnt it?
Fermat's thm.. required the culmination of a lot of fields of mathematics and a single minded and dedicated effort by Andrew John Wiles to complete this proof. It was for a man of Andrew's caliber to get to its proof... having been excited by the simple looking problem .... it became his child hood dream to realize the proof...
If I say, this book is a dedication to his effortsm it would not be wrong...
A book worth a purchase if u like to read abt maths and worth reading for any one....
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