9780691081199-0691081190-The Mathematical Career of Pierre de Fermat, 1601-1665: Second Edition

The Mathematical Career of Pierre de Fermat, 1601-1665: Second Edition

ISBN-13: 9780691081199
ISBN-10: 0691081190
Edition: 2
Author: Michael Sean Mahoney
Publication date: 1973
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover 419 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780691081199
ISBN-10: 0691081190
Edition: 2
Author: Michael Sean Mahoney
Publication date: 1973
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover 419 pages

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The Mathematical Career of Pierre de Fermat, 1601-1665: Second Edition (ISBN-13: 9780691081199 and ISBN-10: 0691081190), written by authors Michael Sean Mahoney, was published by Princeton University Press in 1973. With an overall rating of 4.4 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent The Mathematical Career of Pierre de Fermat, 1601-1665: Second Edition (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.58.

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Hailed as one of the greatest mathematical results of the twentieth century, the recent proof of Fermat's Last Theorem by Andrew Wiles brought to public attention the enigmatic problem-solver Pierre de Fermat, who centuries ago stated his famous conjecture in a margin of a book, writing that he did not have enough room to show his "truly marvelous demonstration." Along with formulating this proposition--xn+yn=zn has no rational solution for n > 2--Fermat, an inventor of analytic geometry, also laid the foundations of differential and integral calculus, established, together with Pascal, the conceptual guidelines of the theory of probability, and created modern number theory. In one of the first full-length investigations of Fermat's life and work, Michael Sean Mahoney provides rare insight into the mathematical genius of a hobbyist who never sought to publish his work, yet who ranked with his contemporaries Pascal and Descartes in shaping the course of modern mathematics.

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