http://netvouz.com/narky/tag/last?feed=rss narky's bookmarks tagged "last" 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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_wiles Sir Andrew John Wiles (born April 11, 1953) is a British-American mathematician, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University, Princeton mathematics department chair, and member of scientific advisory board of the Clay Mathematics Institute. One of the major highlights of his career has been an announcement of a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in 1993 and a discovery of a beautiful method to complete that proof in 1994. Educational > Mathematics > People narky Thu, 01 Jun 2006 06:52:56 GMT