Simon Lehna Singh, MBE is a British author who has specialised in writing about mathematical and scientific topics in an accessible manner. He is the maiden winner of the Lilavati Award.
His written works include Fermat's Last Theorem (in the United States titled Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem), The Code Book (about cryptography and its history), Big Bang (about the Big Bang theory and the origins of the universe) and Trick or Treatment? Alternative Medicine on Trial (about complementary and alternative medicine).
He has also produced documentaries and works for television to accompany his books, is a trustee of NESTA, the National Museum of Science and Industry and co-founded the Undergraduate Ambassadors Scheme.
xn + yn = zn, where n represents 3, 4, 5, ...no solution
"I have discovered a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain."
With these words, the seventeenth-century French mathematician Pierre de Fermat threw down the gauntlet to future generations.What came to be known as Fermat's Last Theorem looked simple; proving it, however, became the Holy Grail of mathematics, baffling its finest minds for more than 350 years.In Fermat's Enigma --based on the author's award-winning documentary film, which aired on PBS's "Nova"--Simon Singh tells the astonishingly entertaining story of the pursuit of that grail, and the lives that were devoted to, sacrificed for, and saved by it.Here is a mesmerizing tale of heartbreak and mastery that will forever change your feelings about mathematics.
这本书我非常推荐。写的非常浅显易懂,即便是文科生看懂整个逻辑也是没有任何问题(好像不小心黑了谁),配合BBC同名纪录片效果更佳呦。正经来说,这本书的最大价值在于,从一个非常好的侧面反应了解决一个数学(科学)问题所需要的付出有时是惊人的,也许要费尽一整代人的努力...
評分这本书的好就勿需多言了,在讲述费马大定理被破解的过程中展现了几千年来人类知识的进步,并同时伴以类似侦探小说的写法,让我有看《达芬奇密码》一样欲罢不能的冲动。 这本书看着看着就有一种亲切的感觉泛起来,看到了久违的勾股定理、想起了世界上还有虚数这样一个东西存在.....
評分http://towerjoo.github.io/blog/2014/05/10/fermat-last-theorem/ 作为一个理工狗,对于数学的基础意义还是深有体会的,于是也就不会承认自己不喜欢数学,似乎一个明显的 例子是:哥也经常读数学的著作(虽不是专著),例如刚刚读完的《费马大定理》,还有书架上蒙灰的《数学...
評分在一个直角三角形中,斜边的平方等于两直角边的平方之和。 数字2的平方根,永远不可能被写成一个最简分数。 数字26夹在25和27之间,前者是一个平方数,后者是一个立方数。像这种夹在一个平方数和一个立方数之间的数字,有且只有一个,那就是数字26. 第...
評分在一个直角三角形中,斜边的平方等于两直角边的平方之和。 数字2的平方根,永远不可能被写成一个最简分数。 数字26夹在25和27之间,前者是一个平方数,后者是一个立方数。像这种夹在一个平方数和一个立方数之间的数字,有且只有一个,那就是数字26. 第...
via Tianfang 7年時間獨自完成一個煉金術般的數學證明,之後被發現漏洞在羞恥與壓力之下又花瞭1年時間修補瞭證明。看完隻陷入瞭深深的自我反省,自己有沒有為任何一件事這麼勇敢這麼專注過...
评分極好的故事,太精彩瞭
评分極好的故事,太精彩瞭
评分前半部是數學簡史,後半部是數學傢的執著
评分精彩絕倫!如果你喜歡數學或數學傢的故事這本書是必看的。如果你隻是喜歡真實的好看的故事這本書也該看。
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