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Bell, Eric Temple

 
9781684221479: The Last Problem
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ISBN 10: 1684221471 ISBN 13: 9781684221479
Editorial: Martino Fine Books, 2017

Sinopsis

2017 Reprint of 1961 Edition.  Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software.   What Eric Temple Bell calls “The Last Problem” 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.  This book fits no categories. It is not a book of mathematics: it is a biography of a famous problem.  Pages 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.  This 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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2017 Reprint of 1961 Edition.  Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software.   What Eric Temple Bell calls “The Last Problem” 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.  This book fits no categories. It is not a book of mathematics: it is a biography of a famous problem.  Pages 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.  This 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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Editorial
Martino Fine Books
Año de publicación
2017
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1684221471
ISBN 13 
9781684221479
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Número de páginas
308
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