http://netvouz.com/narky/tag/fermat?feed=rss narky's bookmarks tagged "fermat" on Netvouz http://www.simonsingh.net/Fermats_Last-Theorem_The_Book.html Over three hundred and fifty years were to pass before a mild-mannered Englishman finally cracked the mystery in 1995. Fermat by then was far more than a theorem. Whole lives had been devoted to the quest for a solution. There was Sophie Germain, who had to take on the identity of a man to conduct research in a field forbidden to females. The dashing Evariste Galois scribbled down the results of his research deep into the night before sauntering out to die in a duel. The Japanese genius Yutaka Taniyama killed himself in despair, while the German industrialist Paul Wolfskehl claimed Fermat had saved him from suicide. Educational > Mathematics > Textbooks/Books narky Fri, 25 May 2007 05:25:05 GMT