by Simon Singh · Fourth Estate Paperbacks · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781857026696
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«Fermat's Last Theorem» is Simon Singh's popular mathematics essay, published by Fourth Estate Paperbacks in paperback (373 pages, in English).
Simon Singh narrates the story of Fermat's Last Theorem, a problem posed in the seventeenth century that challenged mathematicians for over three hundred years. The author, Simon Singh, follows Andrew Wiles from his childhood discovery of it to achieving the proof, and brings back figures such as Sophie Germain, who researched disguised as a man.
Paperback edition published in 1998; includes bibliography and index. It was shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize and won the Independent Publisher Book Award in 1998.
For readers of popular science, with an interest in mathematics, the history of science, and biographies of scientists.
Simon Lehna Singh, is a British popular science author and theoretical and particle physicist. His written works include Fermat's Last Theorem, The Code Book, Big Bang, Trick or Treatment? Alternative Medicine on Trial and The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets. In 2012 Singh founded the Good Thinking Society, through which he created the website "Parallel" to help students learn mathematics.
