Recently, I have just finished this book titled Fermat’s Enigma written by Simon Singh. He is a particle physicist who lives in London, England. The book is about A mathematician named Fermat who tried to solve one of the greatest math problems that was named after him. It brings together the history and culture of mathematics and brilliance in less than 300 pages.

The main topic of this book is a famous problem. It states that there are no three positive integers a^n , b^n = c^n for any integer n greater than 2. The reason that 2 won’t satisfy this condition is that it would simply be the Pythagorean Theorem, which obviously has integers a, b, and c that satisfy the solution.

The book describes the beginning of the theorem. Apparently, Fermat said in a letter that he had a very elegant proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem, but it was too long to write on just one letter. Thus, when he passed away, everyone started looking for the special proof. It goes through the process of how mathematicians tried to recreate the proof until the 1990s, when a man named Andrew Wiles, whose not-so-elegant proof of 700 pages total was approved as correct.

Even though the main focus of this book is on that theorem, it will also provide details about other magical things that he contributed to the mathematical language. The secrets to mathematics 300-400 years ago lie all within this book

This book is great for people interested in the study of mathematics and for younger children, preferably ages 8-14. I believe that it will spark your interest and make mathematics a favorite subject of yours.