Journal Entry 1 by boucli from Toulouse, Midi-Pyrénées France on Friday, April 18, 2003

"The story of a riddle that confounded the world's greatest minds for 358 years"
1637, the French mathematician Pierre de Fermat a conjecture derived from Pythagora's theorem, which anyone could grab but nobody could prove, until 1994 and the young English mathematician Andrew Wiles.
I love puzzles and riddles, and this book is all about it !
I must add that you don't have to understand all mathematics explained (quite simply, though) in the book to appreciate this story of a hunt for a definitive proof (the only thing that can make a conjecture become a theorem) 

Journal Entry 2 by boucli from Toulouse, Midi-Pyrénées France on Monday, April 26, 2004

Bookring !!!

List :

Brice (Lyon, France)
Brujula (Belfort, France)
Chlorine (Paris, france)
Tit-Vinz (Paris, France) the book is here...
Roxibulle (Lille, France)
Raphink (Jaunay-Clan, France)
Mfa (Lisboa, Portugal)
Ilios (Florida, USA) ????

and back to me...

sent to Brice: May 7, 2004 

Journal Entry 3 by brice from Jacou, Languedoc-Roussillon France on Sunday, May 16, 2004

Bien arrivé sans aucun problème en milieu de semaine.

Merci! 

Journal Entry 4 by Brujula from Valenciennes, Nord-Pas-de-Calais France on Friday, October 15, 2004

Received from Brice today. It looks very interesting but will have to wait a little for my bookrings pile to diminish!
Thank you boucli and Brice! 

Journal Entry 5 by Brujula from Valenciennes, Nord-Pas-de-Calais France on Thursday, December 30, 2004

A very interesting and esay to read book (once you get into it!)
It contains a lot more than the story of Fermat's Theorem. Reading it one learns a lot about the history of mathematics (especially calculus and number theory), and about some famous mathematicians.
Thank you Boucli! I'm sorry it took me so long to read it!
Now the book will go to chlorine as soon as I have her adress! 

Journal Entry 6 by Brujula from Valenciennes, Nord-Pas-de-Calais France on Monday, January 03, 2005

mailed to chlorine today! 

Journal Entry 7 by chlorine from Paris, Ile-de-France France on Saturday, January 08, 2005

Retrieved the book from the post-office today, very eager to read it
(et j'ai bien eu ton chèque, brujula, merci beaucoup !) 

Journal Entry 8 by chlorine from Paris, Ile-de-France France on Sunday, January 23, 2005

I thouroghly enjoyed this book. It is very well written.
It is not merely a book about the solution of a single problem, on the countrary it spans the history of mathematics in general and number theory in particular, from 4000 BC to nowadays.
What I found remarkable is that the book is never boring: the author succeeds in finding the facts that are necessary for the understanding, and presents them in a very interesting way. Also, he succeeds in presenting mathematics as a very interesting, passion inspiring subject: his presentation is not dry at all, but instead full of dramatic events and remarkable and sometimes romantic characters (geniuses dying very young in duels or by committing suicide for instance).

I will deposit the book for tit-vinz at the PC today. 

Journal Entry 9 by tit-vinz on Friday, September 01, 2006

Retrouvé lors d'une fouille de bibliothèque post-déménagement. Poursuivra sa route bientôt.