The Last Theorem

The Last Theorem

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author = Arthur C. Clarke Frederik Pohl
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language = English
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genre = Science Fiction
publisher = Del Rey Books
release_date = 2008-08-05
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media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = 320 pp (hardcover)
isbn = ISBN 978-0345470218
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"The Last Theorem" is an Arthur C. Clarke science fiction novel co-written with author Frederik Pohl, published on August 5 2008. [cite web |url=http://www.amazon.com/s?search-alias=stripbooks&field-isbn=0345470214 |publisher=Amazon.com |title=The Last Theorem] [cite web |publisher=Del Rey Books |title=The Last Theorem |url=http://www.randomhouse.com/delrey/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780345470218] Pohl received a manuscript on 40 or 50 pages from Clarke, and just as many pages with notes, some of them so vague that not even Clarke could tell what they meant. The book was then written by hand by Pohl, as he is no longer able to type, before being typed by his wife. [cite news |publisher=The Washington Post |title=A Fantasy World With Dully Familiar Outlines|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/10/AR2008091003443.html|date=2008-09-21] The story is about a young Sri Lankan mathematician who finds a short proof of Fermat's Last Theorem and is hired by the CIA because of the high interest in cryptographic applications of the proof. [cite news |url=http://www.avclub.com/content/node/24247 |work=The A.V. Club |title=Interview: Arthur C. Clarke |first=Tasha |last=Robinson |date=2004-02-18] The plot also contains aliens planning to invade the earth, and a sky hook. [cite news |date=2008-07-29 |publisher=CNN |title=Arthur C. Clarke's last vision |url=http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/books/07/29/clarkes.last.novel.ap/index.html] [The Daily Telegraph, [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/07/26/nosplit/boextract126.xml Extract: The Last Theorem by Arthur C Clarke and Frederik Pohl] .] Important inspirations from the novel came from the tensions between the Sri Lankan government and the Tamil Tigers. [cite news |work=The Independent |url=http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/arthur-c-clarkes-last-words-ndash-from-beyond-the-stars-860869.html |title=Arthur C Clarke's last words – from beyond the stars |date=2008-07-06 |first=Paul |last=Bignell]

Clarke said in 2007 that "The Last Theorem" has taken a lot longer than I expected. That could well be my last novel, but then I've said that before". Just a few days before he died, on March 19 2008, Clarke finished reviewing the final manuscript of the novel. [cite news |publisher=AFP |title=Last odyssey for sci-fi guru Arthur C. Clarke |url=http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jWab-TXO_DymFmU13CzSNVObE6FQ |date=2008-03-18]

See also

* Fermat's Last Theorem in fiction

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