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THE LAST PROBLEM IBD

MARTINO FINE BOOKS
09 / 2017
9781684221479
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2017 Reprint of 1961 Edition. áFull facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. ááWhat Eric Temple Bell calls &ldquo,The Last Problem&rdquo, is the problem of proving ',Fermat',s Last Theorem',, which Fermat wrote in the margin of a book almost 350 years ago. The original text of The Last Problem traced the problem from 2000 BC to 17th century France. Along the way we learn quite a bit about history, and just as much about mathematics.á This book fits no categories. It is not a book of mathematics: it is a biography of a famous problem. áPages go by without an equation appearing. It is both a history of number theory and its place in our civilization, and a history of our civilization',s relationship with mathematics. áThis rich and varied, wide-ranging book, written with force and vigor by someone with a distinctive style and point of view will provide hours of enjoyable reading for anyone interested in mathematics.

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