Fermaova poslednja teorema: priča o zagonetki koja je zbunjivala najveće svetske umove 358 godina
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9788683239146 (8683239144)
Publish date: 2004
Publisher: DN Centar
Pages no: 345
Edition language: Serbian
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
History,
Academic,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Science,
Popular Science,
Philosophy,
History Of Science,
Mathematics
I bought this book after seeing the documentary that went with it.It tells how one person (Andrew Wiles) worked to prove a theorem that had stumped mathemeticians for over 3 centuries after reading about it when he was in primary school. Singh explains the ideas behind the eventual solution in a cle...
"My butter, garcon, is writ large in!"a diner was heard to be chargin'."I HAD to write there,"exclaimed waiter Pierre,"I couldn't find room in the margarine."Ever since I recently stumbled upon the documentary called 'The Proof' I've become extremely interested (almost obsessed) in Wiles's proof of ...
Very Enjoyable. Even if I didn't understand the difference between an elliptical equation and modular forms!
I guess the author does a reasonable job. But when I reached the end, I still didn't feel I understood at all how the proof worked. Probably that's just because it's so bloody hard. I got a lot more though out of Prime Obsession, Derbyshire's book on the Riemann Hypothesis, where the author opens up...