Title: Interesting idea, wrong direction
Product review: I think a book about the solution to Fermat's last theorem is an excellent idea. However, I think that this book ultimately fails because Aczel takes too much time discussing the history of the theorem and the developement of mathematics up until the point when the problem was solved in 1993. More than two centuries of mathematics is pigeon-holed into a book that is under 200 pages. In that respect, I think that the author was overly ambitious in his aim; it is simply impossible to explain topology in 3 or 4 pages. I would have rather seen the story approached from the human, rather than the math, side of things.
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