Le Dernier Théorème de Fermat

Mass Market Paperback, 304 pages

French language

Published Feb. 10, 1999 by Hachette Littérature.

ISBN:
978-2-01-278921-0
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OCLC Number:
40848884

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Pierre Fermat, l’un des plus grands mathématiciens français du xviie siècle, s’était contenté de porter dans la marge de son cahier de travail : « xn + yn = zn impossible si n > 2. J’ai trouvé une solution merveilleuse, mais la place me manque ici pour la développer. » Ce théorème allait devenir le Graal du monde mathématique. Les plus puissants esprits de tous les siècles et de toutes les nations tentèrent de venir à bout de cette équation. Ainsi Leonhard Euler, Sophie Germain, Évariste Galois, Yutaka Taniyama et Paul Wolfskehl se succédèrent sans parvenir à trouver la démonstration recherchée. Mais, en 1993, un jeune Anglais, Andrew Wiles, Professeur à Princeton, parvint enfin à résoudre, après sept années de recherche solitaire et quelques mois de doute, l’énigme de ce problème devant le regard ébahi de la communauté scientifique. Le Dernier Théorème de Fermat raconte cette quête. Une véritable épopée …

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I was lucky to hear Simon Singh at an Eastbourne Sceptics In The Pub meeting where he discussed his then new book, The Mathematics Of The Simpsons. Fermat's Last Theorem was also name-dropped during the evening and it has taken me this long to get to reading it! I was put off by feeling that I would probably be unable to understand any of the actual maths, however was pleasantly surprised to discover that my comprehension didn't fail me until over half-way through and the underlying story can be appreciated even if the algebra is skipped!

Fermat's Last Theorem tells the story of this most enigmatic equation both through the mathematical history that led to its solution and through small biographies of the men and women who were fascinated by it. I was delighted to see female names, albeit only a few, but I hadn't expected any. Singh has a …

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