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Title: Find yourself sipping tea, while reading this one
Review: For me, mathematics was fun and challenging during the university years. After that, I've practised little, except starting a calculator on my computer.Being a backgrounder for Fermat's last theorem, reading this book fired off a new branch of interest in number theory for me.Fermat's relatively easy problem (at least to formulate), wasn't published with a solution, which either proved that Fermat was a genius, lazy or just saying "ha-ha, I know something you don't". The book suggests a combination of them.Weaving together an interesting history of mathematics (with great mathematicians as Euler, Hilbert and Godel) as well as the work of Andrew Wiles who've devoted a great deal of his life to try to solve this theorem, you'll read this book from start to end in no time.If you'd like to get inspired in math, try this one, and then head off into "Godel, Escher, Bach: an eternal golden braid."
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