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Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem (1st Edition) by Simon Singh Dr, Dr John Lynch (Foreword), Simon Singit, John (Foreword By) Lynch Paperback, 315 Pages, Published 1998 ISBN-10: 0-385-49362-2 / 0385493622 ISBN-13: 978-0-385-49362-8 / 9780385493628 xn + yn = zn, where n represents 3, 4, 5, ...no solution"I have discovered a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain."With these words, the seventeenth-century French mathematician Pierre de Fermat threw down the gauntlet to future generations. W |