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邦訳:新潮社・2000年。ピュタゴラスに始まる数論、解決のカギとなった「谷山=志村予想」など数学をめぐる歴史ドラマを、分かりやすく感動的に描いた傑作。【新聞掲載情報(日本語版)】産經新聞(2014年03月16日)
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'I have a truly marvellous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.'
It was with these words, written in the 1630s, that Pierre de Fermat intrigued and infuriated the mathematics community. For over 350 years, proving Fermat's Last Theorem was the most notorious unsolved mathematical problem, a puzzle whose basics most children could grasp but whose solution eluded the greatest minds in the world. In 1993, after years of secret toil, Englishman Andrew Wiles announced to an astounded audience that he had cracked Fermat's Last Theorem. He had no idea of the nightmare that lay ahead.
In 'Fermat's Last Theorem' Simon Singh has crafted a remarkable tale of intellectual endeavour spanning three centuries, and a moving testament to the obsession, sacrifice and extraordinary determination of Andrew Wiles: one man against all the odds.