From the author of Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science, comes this colourful description of the life of the world’ s first modern scientist. Interesting yet based on fact. Michael White’ slearned yet readable new book offers a true picture of Newton completely different from what people commonly know about him. Newton is shown as a gifted scientist with very human weaknesses who stood at the point in history where magic(魔术) anded and science began.
￡18.99 Hardback 320pp Fourth Estate
ISBN 1857024168

In 1963 a schoolboy called Andrew Wiles reading in his school library came across the world’ s greatest mathematical problem: Fermat’ s Last Theorem(定理). First put forward by the French mathematician Pierre de Fermat in the seenth century, the theorem had baffled and beaten the finest mathematical minds, including a French woman scientist who made a major advance in working out the problem, and who had to dress like a man in order to be able to study at the Ecole Poly- technique. Through unbelievable determination Andrew Wiles finally worked out the problem in 1995. An unusual story of human effort over three centuries, Fermat’s Last Theorem will delight specialists and general readers alike.
￡12.99 Hardback 384pp Fourth Estate
ISBN 1857025210

From the author of Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science, comes this colourful description of the life of the world’ s first modern scientist. Interesting yet based on fact. Michael White’ slearned yet readable new book offers a true picture of Newton completely different from what people commonly know about him. Newton is shown as a gifted scientist with very human weaknesses who stood at the point in history where magic(魔术) anded and science began.
￡18.99 Hardback 320pp Fourth Estate
ISBN 1857024168

In 1963 a schoolboy called Andrew Wiles reading in his school library came across the world’ s greatest mathematical problem: Fermat’ s Last Theorem(定理). First put forward by the French mathematician Pierre de Fermat in the seenth century, the theorem had baffled and beaten the finest mathematical minds, including a French woman scientist who made a major advance in working out the problem, and who had to dress like a man in order to be able to study at the Ecole Poly- technique. Through unbelievable determination Andrew Wiles finally worked out the problem in 1995. An unusual story of human effort over three centuries, Fermat’s Last Theorem will delight specialists and general readers alike.
￡12.99 Hardback 384pp Fourth Estate
ISBN 1857025210

A. To encourage people to raise questions.
B. To cause difficulty in understanding.
C. To provide a person with an explanation.
D.To limit people’ s imagination.