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Fermat's Enigma, the Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problemby Simon Singh

✍ Scribed by Review by: Gregory D. Foley

Book ID: 121821090
Publisher: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Year: 1998
Weight: 1001 KB
Volume: 91
Category: Article
ISSN: 0025-5769
DOI: 10.2307/27970785

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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 gener