Author: Michael Sean Mahoney
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691187630
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 455
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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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Author: Charles Henry
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Category : Mathematics
Languages : fr
Pages : 226
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Languages : fr
Pages : 264
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Author: Charles Henry
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Author: Daniel Coit Gilman
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 996
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 954
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Author: Charles Henry
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Author: Robert Michael Brain
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295805781
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 381
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Robert Brain traces the origins of artistic modernism to specific technologies of perception developed in late-nineteenth-century laboratories. Brain argues that the thriving fin-de-siècle field of “physiological aesthetics,” which sought physiological explanations for the capacity to appreciate beauty and art, changed the way poets, artists, and musicians worked and brought a dramatic transformation to the idea of art itself.
Author: Edward Everett Whitford
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Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 199
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