
Fermat’s Last Theorem: Unlocking the Secret of an Ancient Mathematical Problem
Amir D. Aczel
Fermat’s Last Theorem: Unlocking the Secret of an Ancient Mathematical Problem
Amir D. Aczel
#2969 of 3,809 books · #349 in Science & Technology
Shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology (1996).
Explains how the most famous mathematical problem of the past three centuries was solved.
- Publisher
- Delta
- ISBN-13
- 9780385319461
- Genre
- Topics
Awards
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and TechnologyShortlisted(1996)
Other awarded books from Amir D. Aczel
Amir D. Aczel has no other awarded or shortlisted books yet.
If you liked Fermat’s Last Theorem: Unlocking the Secret of an Ancient Mathematical Problem, you could also like these

In Code: A Mathematical Journey
Sarah Flannery and David Flannery
0 wins · 3 score

Infinite Powers
Steven Strogatz
0 wins · 3 score

Is Math Real? How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics’ Deepest Truths
Eugenia Cheng
1 win · 8 score

The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity
Pedro G. Ferreira
0 wins · 3 score

Why Beauty is Truth: A History of Symmetry
Ian Stewart
0 wins · 3 score

The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
Simon Singh
0 wins · 3 score

Alex's Adventures in Numberland
Alex Bellos
0 wins · 7 score

The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom
Graham Farmelo
1 win · 8 score

Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty
Morris Kline
0 wins · 4 score

The Man Who Loved Only Numbers
Paul Hoffman
1 win · 8 score

Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times
Morris Kline
0 wins · 4 score

The Second Kind of Impossible
Paul Steinhardt
0 wins · 3 score

Turing’s Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe
George Dyson
0 wins · 3 score

Faust in Copenhagen: A Struggle for the Soul of Physics
Gino Segrè
0 wins · 3 score

The Hunt for Vulcan: ... and How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet, Discovered Relativity, and Deciphered the Universe
Thomas Levenson
0 wins · 3 score
Similar Topics

Is Math Real? How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics’ Deepest Truths
Eugenia Cheng
1 win · 8 score
Mathematics
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers
Paul Hoffman
1 win · 8 score
Mathematics
Alex's Adventures in Numberland
Alex Bellos
0 wins · 7 score
Mathematics
The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
Robert Kanigel
0 wins · 7 score
Mathematics
Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times
Morris Kline
0 wins · 4 score
History of mathematics
Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty
Morris Kline
0 wins · 4 score
History of mathematics
Alex Through the Looking-Glass: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life
Alex Bellos
0 wins · 3 score
Mathematics
Beyond Infinity: An Expedition to the Outer Limits of the Mathematical Universe
Eugenia Cheng
0 wins · 3 score
Mathematics
Everything Is Predictable: How Bayes' Remarkable Theorem Explains the World
Tom Chivers
0 wins · 3 score
History of mathematics
In Code: A Mathematical Journey
Sarah Flannery and David Flannery
0 wins · 3 score
Mathematics
Infinite Powers
Steven Strogatz
0 wins · 3 score
Mathematics
Math in Drag
Kyne Santos
0 wins · 3 score
Mathematics
Why Beauty is Truth: A History of Symmetry
Ian Stewart
0 wins · 3 score
History of mathematics
The Big Bang of Numbers: How to Build the Universe Using Only Math
Manil Suri
0 wins · 2 score
Mathematics