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Title: Fermat's Last Theorem
Author: Simon Singh
Number of Pages: 368
Genre: popular science
Book Number/Goal: 1/50
Rating: 4/5
Review: I read Simon Singh's books before, and I loved them all. He's got a great writing style, and I especially like how he manages to smoothly include anecdotes and digressions in his narrative. He's great at explaining even the most complicated mathematical concepts in a way comprehensible even for readers who stopped learning maths at high school, but I would have liked the book to have more maths in the appendices, and the unending “proof by induction is just like dominoes” sort of metaphors were a bit grating.
I appreciated his writing about female mathematicians, and how women in general were discouraged1 from pursuing science, too.
1Where by “discouraged” I mean “isolated in her room, without clothes or candles, so as not to be able to read anything at all”, like Sophie Germain.
