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Originally Posted by ddave
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
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I think you're referring to Simon Singh's book
Fermat's Last Theorem. Don't think it's available as an e-book.