Fermat's Last Theorem

the story of a riddle that confounded the world's greatest minds for 358 years

by Simon Singh

1997 315 pages eng ★ 4.0 (24 ratings)

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. …