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Simon Singh. Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem. New York: Walker, 1997.
Pierre de Fermat, a seventeenth-century French judge who had a gift for math, inspired generations of mathematicians when he left a small note in the margin of a mathematical text. In it, he proclaimed he could prove that x" + yt = z" had no whole number solutions when "n" is greater than 2. This has become known as Fermat's last theorem and although it seems simple enough, the proof long evaded the greatest mathematical minds. No one has ever discovered Fermat's...