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ddave · 03-31-2010, 12:31 PM

Here's another book recommendation, although not an ebook. Have you heard of "Fermat's Enigma". It traces the history of a mathmatical proof that was 1st proposed by Pythagoras and not solved until the 1990's. The author, Simon Singh, makes it more of a history story complete with some human drama (arrogance, isolation, depression, suicide, etc.) while not going far into the math. It does a good job of illustrating the idea behind a mathmatical proof and introduces some of the basic concepts of mathmatics. For example; integers, negative numbers, zero, complex numbers.
Dave

03-31-2010, 12:31 PM	#16
ddave Enthusiast Posts: 35 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Minnesota, USA Device: none	Here's another book recommendation, although not an ebook. Have you heard of "Fermat's Enigma". It traces the history of a mathmatical proof that was 1st proposed by Pythagoras and not solved until the 1990's. The author, Simon Singh, makes it more of a history story complete with some human drama (arrogance, isolation, depression, suicide, etc.) while not going far into the math. It does a good job of illustrating the idea behind a mathmatical proof and introduces some of the basic concepts of mathmatics. For example; integers, negative numbers, zero, complex numbers. Dave