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Title: A good book
Review: This book is very readable, if for no other reason than to see a characterization of people who hunger for knowledge and are willing to go as far as necessary to satisfy that desire. It is not very clear from the book, but the man who proved the theorem (Andrew Wiles) invented lots of new, good math in his quest to solve this problem, and that is astounding in itself. What's impressive (of the book) is the way that it made math interesting. (Just on the strength of the storytelling ability of the author, I've purchased another of his books about Quantum Cryptography and not been disappointed.) This is also a book that you'll want to read a second (or third) time to make sure that you didn't miss any parts of the argument.Of course most of us won't understand the mathematics *all the way through* this book, but there are references to help anyone understand what he might wish to, for his personal enrichment.
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