The Last Theorem
New York : DelRey/Ballantine Books, 2008.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: xiv, 299 pages ; 25 cm
When Ranjit Subramanian, a Sri Lankan with a special gift for numbers, writes a three-page proof of the coveted "Last Theorem," which French mathematician Pierre de Fermat claimed to have discovered (but never recorded) in 1637, Ranjit's achievement is hailed as a work of genius, bringing him fame and fortune. But it also brings him to the attention of the National Security Agency and a shadowy United Nations outfit called Pax per Fidem-or Peace Through Transparency-whose secretive workings belie its name. Suddenly Ranjit-along with his family-finds himself swept up in world-shaking events, his genius for abstract mathematical thought put to uses that are both concrete and potentially deadly.
Subjects:
Mathematicians -- Fiction.
Physicists -- Fiction.
Fermat's last theorem -- Fiction.
Space vehicles -- Propulsion systems -- Fiction.
Sri Lanka -- Fiction.
Mathematicians -- Fiction.
Physicists -- Fiction.
Fermat's last theorem -- Fiction.
Space vehicles -- Propulsion systems -- Fiction.
Sri Lanka -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780345470232 (pbk.)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
SF Clarke Paperback | Edgewood | Science Fiction | In |
SF Clarke Paperback | St. Andrews Indoors | Science Fiction | In |