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Title: Exciting and Full of Suspense
Review: This required reading for my History of Mathematics class was anything but a chore. Singh keeps the reader wanting more at the end of each chapter. The descriptions and examples of the mathematical concepts were written so that a person without a mathematics education could learn and understand them. The powerful story behind the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem is told along with many sub-stories: the tragic Tanijama-Shimura story, the brilliant youngster Galois, Euler's story, and many others. Without realizing it the reader gains much knowledge of history and mathematics history.It is a true love story of the passion Andrew Wiles possessed in his desire to solve the greatest math problem ever. For 350 years some of the greatest mathematicians had tried to solve the problem and they all failed. This book tells their stories along with the drama that surrounded them.
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