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Fermat's Enigma The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem

Simon Singh

Scheduled to be published across the globe, the story of Fermat's Last Theorem, devised by the seventeenth-century French mathematician Pierre de Fermat, recounts the struggles of three and a half centuries of scientists to devise a proof for it.

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It was mentioned by Simon Singh as the American title for his first book, focusing on the infamous Fermat's Last Theorem.

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Well, the first book I'd ever written was a book called Fermat's Last Theorem. In America it was called Fermat's Enigma and it's all about the most notorious problem in the history of mathematics.

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It was mentioned by Simon Singh as the American title for his first book, focusing on the infamous Fermat's Last Theorem.

"

Well, the first book I'd ever written was a book called Fermat's Last Theorem. In America it was called Fermat's Enigma and it's all about the most notorious problem in the history of mathematics.

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