<story><title>How Math’s Most Famous Proof Nearly Broke (2015)</title><url>http://nautil.us/issue/67/reboot/how-maths-most-famous-proof-nearly-broke-rp</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>drej</author><text>I can recommend Simon Singh&amp;#x27;s book on this topic, his writing is rather captivating (The Big Bang is one of the best books I&amp;#x27;ve read, so is the Code Book). He also made a BBC documentary on the topic.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;simonsingh.net&amp;#x2F;books&amp;#x2F;fermats-last-theorem&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;simonsingh.net&amp;#x2F;books&amp;#x2F;fermats-last-theorem&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>How Math’s Most Famous Proof Nearly Broke (2015)</title><url>http://nautil.us/issue/67/reboot/how-maths-most-famous-proof-nearly-broke-rp</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>oxymoron</author><text>Is it really fair to say that Wiles proof is the most famous in mathematics? Seems to me like something like the Euclid’s proof of the infinitude of the primes might be more well known? Or the standard geometrical proof of Pythagoras theorem?</text></comment>