Binding: Audio Cassette
Dewey Decimal Number: 512
EAN: 9780001054639
Edition: Abridged edition
Format: Abridged, Audiobook
ISBN: 0001054635
Label: HarperCollins Audio
Manufacturer: HarperCollins Audio
Number Of Items: 2
Publication Date: July 21, 1997
Publisher: HarperCollins Audio
Studio: HarperCollins Audio
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Editorial Review:Amazon.co.uk Review:When Cambridge mathematician Andrew Wiles announced a solution for Fermat's last theorem in 1993, it electrified the world of mathematics. After a flaw was discovered in the proof, Wiles had to work for another year--he had already laboured in solitude for seven years--to establish that he had solved the 350-year-old problem. Simon Singh's book is a lively, comprehensible explanation of Wiles's work and of the colourful history that has build up around Fermat's last theorem over the years. The book contains some problems that offer a taste for the maths, but it also includes limericks to give a feeling for the quirkier side of mathematicians.
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The book looks like the author is just postponing the end of the story just repeating and repeating the same ideas. The part of the proof and the attempts to correct the proof are quite disappointing because they are too much redundant. Moreover Singh is sliding some e-mails which don't add anything to the story and are quite "impenetrable". I do not like this way of writing. The author pretends not to use math symbology and math concepts beyond very basic ones, and then he lets go concepts like ... Read More
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I was never a fan of maths at school. It did not come easily to me and I failed to see the relevance of trigonometry to my everyday life.
I say this so you realise I am not some sort of science geek who was best friends with a calculator. That's because I found this book absolutely fascinating. It made me laugh 3 times in the first 20 pages alone!
What Simon Singh does is through Fermat's puzzle describe the history of mathematics from Pythagoras right up to the 1990's. ... Read More
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What I loved the most about this book was it's timeline-structure. Dating back to the Pythagorean ages to the present; I thought this was a brilliant idea. The book is full of interesting stories of what the most famous mathematicians in the world had experienced during their profession.
The book reaches out to people on many levels:
Women:
The story told about Sophie Germain (born in 1776), the daughter of a merchant whom outside of her work shared a great passion for Mathematics. ... Read More
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This is a very well-written book: high-level mathematics made accessible to all. It is a true adventure story - and if you are also interested in finding out what exactly it is about mathematics that motivates mathematicians - then this is the book to read. Highly recommended.
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an interesting book about Mathematics and about mathematicians both the famous and not so famous
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