Fermat's enigma / Singh, Simon

Examines the historic quest to find a proof for seventeenth-century French mathematician Pierre de Fermat's Last Theorem, discussing the life and discoveries of Fermat; eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth century attempts to solve the mathematical riddle; and the work of Princeton professor Andrew Wiles who announced in 1993 that he had found an answer.

Traces the centuries-long history of the quest to prove the mathematical equation known as Fermat's Last Theorem.