Praise for "Fermat's Enigma by Simon Singh:
"Vividly recounted...I strongly recommend this book to anyone
wishing to catch a glimpse of what is one of the most important and
ill-understood, but oldest, cultural activities of humanity...an
excellent and very worthwhile account of one of the most dramatic
and moving events of the century."
--Roger Penrose, "The New York Times Book Review
"How great a riddle was Fermat's 'last theorem'? The exploration of
space, the splitting of the atom, the discovery of DNA--unthinkable
in Fermat's time--all were achieved while his Pythagorean proof
still remained elusive...Though [Singh] may not ask us to bring too
much algebra to the table, he does expect us to appreciate a good
detective story."
--"The Boston Sunday Globe
"It is hard to imagine a more informative or gripping account
of...this centuries-long drama of ingenious failures, crushed
hopes, fatal duels, and suicides."
--"The Wall Street Journal
"[Singh] writes with graceful knowledgeability of the esoteric and
esthetic appeal of mathematics through the ages, and especially of
the mystifying behavior of numbers."
--"The New York Times
"[Singh] has done an admirable job with an extremely difficult
subject. He has also done mathematics a great service by conveying
the passion and drama that have carried Fermat's Last Theorem aloft
as the most celebrated mathematics problem of the last four
centuries."
--American Mathematical Society
"The amazing achievement of Singh's book is that it actually makes
the logic of the modern proof understandable to the
nonspecialist...More important, Singh shows why it is significant
that this problem should have beensolved."
--"The Christian Science Monitor
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