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To: grey_whiskers

One of my favorite all time books.

Fermat’s Enigma by Simon Signh

Free PDF avail on line

A surprisingly easy read and description on the evolution of math.
And the solving of A cubed + B cubed = C cubed (no numbers exist to solve this ratio)

The book leaves you with the sense that math is art


42 posted on 11/13/2016 8:16:34 AM PST by jcon40
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To: jcon40

Like it!

Others to try for ‘expanding the conceptual mind’:

“Flatland” by Edwin Abbott (1884)
Michu Kaku’s “Parallel Worlds” and “Hyperspace”


50 posted on 11/13/2016 8:26:37 AM PST by apostoli ("When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination." - Sowel)
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