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Fermat's Last Theorem

The Story of a Riddle That Confounded the World's Greatest Minds for 358 Years

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By: Simon Singh
Narrated by: David Rintoul
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Summary

'I have a truly marvellous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.' It was with these words, written in the 1630s, that Pierre de Fermat intrigued and infuriated the mathematics community.

For over 350 years, proving Fermat's Last Theorem was the most notorious unsolved mathematical problem, a puzzle whose basics most children could grasp but whose solution eluded the greatest minds in the world.

In 1993, after years of secret toil, Englishman Andrew Wiles announced to an astounded audience that he had cracked Fermat's Last Theorem. He had no idea of the nightmare that lay ahead.

In Fermat's Last Theorem Simon Singh has crafted a remarkable tale of intellectual endeavour spanning three centuries, and a moving testament to the obsession, sacrifice and extraordinary determination of Andrew Wiles: one man against all the odds.

©2012 Simon Singh (P)2016 Audible, Ltd Science Mathematics Thought-Provoking
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Amazing read, thanks Simon

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An amazing achievement both by Andrew Wiles in solving Fermat's but also by Simon Singh in writing an account that covered some much of the history so accessibly. I strongly recommend this to anyone and have bored friends with it already. Inspirational.

A wonderful achievement

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I'd already seen the BBC program about Andrew Wiles so I already knew the story, if anything it encouraged me to buy this audiobook.

This isn't a maths book though, it's a story about a maths conundrum that even a primary school child could understand.

Simon Singh tells the story from it's early conception, through the centuries and onto today with the listener needing to know anything but simple maths. He not only tells the story about the maths but about the people who created them.

David Rintoul the narrator is clear to understand and reads it very well.

I've listened to a few maths books and this is by far the best.

Best Maths story I've heard.

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Excellent - easy to follow and the story of the characters is as good as the story of the maths!

Must listen

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I studied 3rd level maths to a minor degree and still found some of it challenging, but there is more than enough to keep you interested regardless

Very interesting

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