by Simon Singh · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783423330527
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«Fermats letzter Satz» is Simon Singh's popular mathematics essay, published by Dtv in paperback (364 pages, in German).
Starting from Pythagoras' theorem, it explains why that formula does not hold for exponents greater than two and reconstructs the long search for a proof of the enigma Fermat left noted without proving. Singh interweaves biography, history and popularization to narrate the attempts of several generations of mathematicians up to Andrew Wiles.
The German edition (dtv 33052) appeared in 2000 and the translation from English is by Klaus Fritz; the original was published as «Fermat’s Last Theorem» in 1997.
For readers interested in mathematics, history of science and scientific popularization; accessible explanations without the need for technical training.
