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Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem

Simon Singh · 1998 · 315 pages

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Rakhim Davletkaliyev loved it
The book that sparked my interest in discrete math and abstract algebra. Other books by Simon Singh are also fantastic.

on rakhim.org · 16 Aug 2026

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.