Author: Eli Maor
Publisher: Princeton University Pre
Keywords: history, year, theorem, pythagorean
Number of Pages: 286
Published: 2007-05-21
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0691125260
ISBN-13: 9780691125268
By any measure, the Pythagorean theorem is the most famous statement in all of mathematics, one remembered from high school geometry class by even the most math-phobic students. Well over four hundred proofs are known to exist, including ones by a twelve-year-old Einstein, a young blind girl, Leonardo da Vinci, and a future president of the United States. Here--perhaps for the first time in English--is the full story of this famous theorem.Although attributed to Pythagoras, the theorem was known to the Babylonians more than a thousand years before him. He may have been the first to prove it, b
Authors:Arthur C. Clarke, Frederik Pohl,
Publisher: Del Rey
Keywords: theorem, last
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2008-08-05
List price: $27.00
ISBN-10: 0345470214
ISBN-13: 9780345470218
Two of science fictionâs most renowned writers join forces for a storytelling sensation. The historic collaboration between Frederik Pohl and his fellow founding father of the genre, Arthur C. Clarke, is both a momentous literary event and a fittingly grand farewell from the late, great visionary author of 2001: A Space Odyssey.The Last Theorem is a story of one manâs mathematical obsession, and a celebration of the human spirit and the scientific method. It is also a gripping intellectual thriller in which humanity, facing extermination from all-but-omnipotent aliens, the Grand Gala
Author: Leopold Flatto
Publisher: American Mathematical Society
Keywords: theorem, poncelet
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2008-12-10
List price: $49.00
ISBN-10: 0821843753
ISBN-13: 9780821843758
Poncelet’s theorem is a famous result in algebraic geometry, dating to the early part of the nineteenth century. It concerns closed polygons inscribed in one conic and circumscribed about another. The theorem is of great depth in that it relates to a large and diverse body of mathematics. There are several proofs of the theorem, none of which is elementary. A particularly attractive feature of the theorem, which is easily understood but difficult to prove, is that it serves as a prism through which one can learn and appreciate a lot of beautiful mathematics. The author’s original r
Authors:Arthur C. Clarke, Frederik Pohl,
Publisher: Del Rey
Keywords: theorem, last
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2009-08-18
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0345470230
ISBN-13: 9780345470232
When Ranjit Subramanian, a Sri Lankan with a special gift for numbers, writes a three-page proof of the coveted “Last Theorem,” which French mathematician Pierre de Fermat claimed to have discovered (but never recorded) in 1637, Ranjit’s achievement is hailed as a work of genius, bringing him fame and fortune. But it also brings him to the attention of the National Security Agency and a shadowy United Nations outfit called Pax per Fidem–or Peace Through Transparency–whose secretive workings belie its name. Suddenly Ranjit–along with his family–finds himself swept up in world-shak
Author: Denis Guedj
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin
Keywords: novel, theorem, parrot
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2002-10-04
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 0312303025
ISBN-13: 9780312303020
Author: William Chauvenet
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: logarithms, theorem, binomial
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2008-12-09
List price: $18.75
ISBN-10: 0559677715
ISBN-13: 9780559677717
Author: Paulo Ribenboim
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: amateurs, theorem, last, fermat
Number of Pages: 428
Published: 1999-02-11
List price: $79.95
ISBN-10: 0387985085
ISBN-13: 9780387985084
This book is intended for amateurs, students and teachers. The author presents partial results which could be obtained with exclusively elementary methods. The proofs are given in detail, with minimal prerequisites. An original feature are the ten interludes, devoted to important topics of elementary number theory, thus making the reading of this book self-contained. Their interest goes beyond Fermat’s theorem. The Epilogue is a serious attempt to render accessible the strategy of the recent proof of Fermat’s last theorem, a great mathematical feat.
