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Title: A great story
Review: This is the story and the history of the world longest standing math problem. There were some problems in my calculus classes that I just gave up on after 20 mins. This problem has people giving up on it for 350 years. Fermat's last theorem is simple and elegant and it stumped dudes with stratosphereic IQs for centuries. This book starts with a good history of number theory, starting in ancient Greece and progresses up to Andrew Wiles, the guy who finally crack the problem. It is kind of funny, the problem could be written on a bar napkin. The proof ended up being 130 pages long and involed almost all of the newest mathematical developments of the 20th century. It is a great book, there are so many interesting characters, I really enjoyed it. It isn't technical and certainly doesn't require a math degree to understand. It was a fun little book, and it a fast read. Don't miss it.
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