Fearless Symmetry

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• Fearless Symmetry: Exposing the Hidden Patterns of Numbers

  Fearless Symmetry "began as an expository article for professional mathematicians about the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem" but is, as its back-cover blurb claims, "written in a friendly style for a general audience". This seems like a contradiction ... (read full critics)

  dannyreviews published on Tue, 24 Aug 2010

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  Good job

  The authors have done an admirable job in trying to explain real mathematics to an educated but nonspecialized audience. It is a very difficult thing to do. I do not believe they really succeed but it is the best effort I have seen so far. The last part of the book is necessarily too sketchy. More s ... (continue)

  The authors have done an admirable job in trying to explain real mathematics to an educated but nonspecialized audience. It is a very difficult thing to do. I do not believe they really succeed but it is the best effort I have seen so far. The last part of the book is necessarily too sketchy. More specialists should try their hand at this. It would be a service to the community.

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• English Books
• Others 272 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0691138710
• ISBN-13: 9780691138718
• Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
• Pub date: Jan 01, 2008
• Also available as: Hardcover

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