Simon Lehna Singh, MBE is a British author who has specialised in writing about mathematical and scientific topics in an accessible manner. He is the maiden winner of the Lilavati Award.
His written works include Fermat's Last Theorem (in the United States titled Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem), The Code Book (about cryptography and its history), Big Bang (about the Big Bang theory and the origins of the universe) and Trick or Treatment? Alternative Medicine on Trial (about complementary and alternative medicine).
He has also produced documentaries and works for television to accompany his books, is a trustee of NESTA, the National Museum of Science and Industry and co-founded the Undergraduate Ambassadors Scheme.
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.What came to be known as Fermat's Last Theorem looked simple; proving it, however, became the Holy Grail of mathematics, baffling its finest minds for more than 350 years.In Fermat's Enigma --based on the author's award-winning documentary film, which aired on PBS's "Nova"--Simon Singh tells the astonishingly entertaining story of the pursuit of that grail, and the lives that were devoted to, sacrificed for, and saved by it.Here is a mesmerizing tale of heartbreak and mastery that will forever change your feelings about mathematics.
这本书的好就勿需多言了,在讲述费马大定理被破解的过程中展现了几千年来人类知识的进步,并同时伴以类似侦探小说的写法,让我有看《达芬奇密码》一样欲罢不能的冲动。 这本书看着看着就有一种亲切的感觉泛起来,看到了久违的勾股定理、想起了世界上还有虚数这样一个东西存在.....
評分那天,当当的送货员将我订的一堆书送来,老公问一本叫《费马大定理》的书是什么,我说是一本数学书时,他和儿子一起嘲笑我:就你?看数学书? 就算人家的数学学得非常糟糕,当年考大学都不曾考及格,也不应该打击人家一大把年纪还上进的积极性不是?何况,这的确是一本非常棒...
評分 評分有一款被称为人类精神世界贪嗔痴最高境界的游戏名叫:数论。这款游戏的开发商是:上帝。这款游戏的付费方式:免费(但对智商有一定要求,因为智商低的刚进游戏就被秒了)。迷上这款游戏的玩家,不仅不会被送到青少年网游戒毒所,反而被世界人民奉为神明。每打掉一个怪,人们都...
評分那天,当当的送货员将我订的一堆书送来,老公问一本叫《费马大定理》的书是什么,我说是一本数学书时,他和儿子一起嘲笑我:就你?看数学书? 就算人家的数学学得非常糟糕,当年考大学都不曾考及格,也不应该打击人家一大把年纪还上进的积极性不是?何况,这的确是一本非常棒...
前半部是數學簡史,後半部是數學傢的執著
评分極好的故事,太精彩瞭
评分從畢達哥拉斯到 Fermat 到 Andrew Wiles, 從兩韆年前到現在, 最後公布結果還一番波摺, 公眾的關注很多時候是探索樂趣的阻礙
评分精彩絕倫!如果你喜歡數學或數學傢的故事這本書是必看的。如果你隻是喜歡真實的好看的故事這本書也該看。
评分從畢達哥拉斯到 Fermat 到 Andrew Wiles, 從兩韆年前到現在, 最後公布結果還一番波摺, 公眾的關注很多時候是探索樂趣的阻礙
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