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.
虽然是理科生,但是我数学一直不太好,最多是勉强做做题,考考试的水平,而且不管在理论和应用方面学起来都比较慢。在我心里我一直觉得,数学既不是文科也不是理科,我心里的文科,是读、识、背、写、论。理科呢,是看、思、懂、解、用。数学在我心里高贵冷艳,又不像...
評分从来没有想过毕业之后会读这么一本关于数学的科普读物。 书把晦涩难懂的数学问题写得引人入胜,一周内就看完了,后半本甚至是一天看完的。一点不枯燥,非常有趣。而且在看费马大定理最后怎么被证明那段时,我甚至感到浑身热血沸腾,晚上睡觉满脑子还都是椭圆方程和模形式。 整...
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...
評分以前我就是个不太喜欢数学的人,确切的说是讨厌那些很烦琐的计算。这本书我看的是PDF格式的,其实早就下载好了的,只是没去看,那天拿来一看,看得入谜,一口气看完已是凌晨,但那种满足感却也无法说出。感叹于数学的神奇,感叹于数学家们的天才和他们那坚韧的意志。
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。
评分第一遍讀完的是在讀master的那兩年,那時候離早些年參加各種奧數比賽的日子還不遠,還能完整地熟練地運用費馬小定理。現在再看的時候幾乎已經很難想起完整的費小定理瞭,也有瞭完全不同的閱讀體會和思路。
评分第一遍讀完的是在讀master的那兩年,那時候離早些年參加各種奧數比賽的日子還不遠,還能完整地熟練地運用費馬小定理。現在再看的時候幾乎已經很難想起完整的費小定理瞭,也有瞭完全不同的閱讀體會和思路。
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