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Book: Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem
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  1. Simon Singh _ Fermat's Enigma: The Epic

    although there are plenty of numbers whose divisors add up to one less than the number itself, that is to say only slightly defective, there appear to be no numbers that are slightly excessive.
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  2. Simon Singh _ Fermat's Enigma: The Epic

    The Brotherhood was effectively a religious community, and one of the idols they worshiped was Number.
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  3. Simon Singh _ Fermat's Enigma: The Epic

    Even after Pythagoras's death a member of the Brotherhood was drowned for breaking his oath-he publicly announced the discovery of a new regular solid, the dodecahedron, constructed from twelve regular pentagons.
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  4. Simon Singh _ Fermat's Enigma: The Epic

    Each member of the school was forced to swear an oath never to reveal to the outside world any of their mathematical discoveries.
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  5. Simon Singh _ Fermat's Enigma: The Epic

    Pythagoras, the teacher, paid his student three oboli for each lesson he attended
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  6. Simon Singh _ Fermat's Enigma: The Epic

    Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game.
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  7. Simon Singh _ Fermat's Enigma: The Epic

    The construction of mathematical logic had become the arbiter of truth. This was the Pythagoreans' greatest contribution to civilisation - a way of achieving truth which is beyond the fallibility of human judgement.
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  8. Simon Singh _ Fermat's Enigma: The Epic

    Não existe utilidade prática em saber que π é irracional, mas, se podemos saber, então certamente seria intolerável não saber."
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  9. Simon Singh _ Fermat's Enigma: The Epic

    I had this very rare privilege of being able to pursue in my life what had been my childhood dream. I know it's a rare privilege, but if you can tackle something in adult life that means that much to you, then it's more rewarding than anything imaginable." - Andrew Wiles
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  10. Simon Singh _ Fermat's Enigma: The Epic

    The Last Theorem is at the heart of an intriguing saga of courage, skulduggery, cunning, and tragedy, involving all the greatest heroes of mathematics.
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  11. Simon Singh _ Fermat's Enigma: The Epic

    The nineteenth-century mathematician Leopold Kronecker said, "God made the integers; all the rest is the work of man.
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