By Arthur C. Clarke, Frederik Pohl
Of technology fiction's most famous writers subscribe to forces for a storytelling sensation. The old collaboration among Frederik Pohl and his fellow founder of the style, Arthur C. Clarke, is either a momentous literary occasion and a fittingly grand farewell from the overdue, nice visionary writer of 2001: an area Odyssey.
The final Theorem is a narrative of 1 man's mathematical obsession, and a party of the human spirit and the medical process. it's also a gripping highbrow mystery within which humanity, dealing with extermination from all-but-omnipotent extraterrestrial beings, the Grand Galactics, needs to conquer variations of politics and faith and are available jointly . . . or perish.
In 1637, the French mathematician Pierre de Fermat scrawled a notice within the margin of a publication approximately an enigmatic theorem: "I have chanced on a very magnificent evidence of this proposition which this margin is just too slender to contain." He additionally missed to checklist his facts somewhere else. therefore all started a look for the Holy Grail of mathematics--a seek that didn't finish until eventually 1994, whilst Andrew Wiles released a 150-page facts. however the facts was once burdensome, overlong, and applied mathematical recommendations undreamed of in Fermat's time, and so it left many critics unsatisfied--including younger Ranjit Subramanian, a Sri Lankan with a distinct present for arithmetic and a keenness for the recognized "Last Theorem."
When Ranjit writes a three-page facts of the concept that is based completely on wisdom to be had to Fermat, his fulfillment is hailed as a piece of genius, bringing him popularity and fortune. however it additionally brings him to the eye of the nationwide safeguard service provider and a shadowy United countries outfit referred to as Pax according to Fidem, or Peace via Transparency, whose secretive workings belie its identify. all of sudden Ranjit--together together with his spouse, Myra de Soyza, knowledgeable in man made intelligence, and their burgeoning family--finds himself swept up in world-shaking occasions, his genius for summary mathematical concept placed to makes use of which are either concrete and probably lethal.
Meanwhile, unbeknownst to someone in the world, an alien fleet is drawing close the planet at an important percent of the rate of sunshine. Their project: to exterminate the harmful species of primates often called homo sapiens.
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She had to concentrate on her presentation, though that didn't mean she couldn't spare him an occasional glance. She'd acknowledged his arrival with a semiformal wave of one wing, and his triumvirate had responded synchronously, acknowledging as three the greeting intended for one. She admired his stride, almost a prance, as the trio entered and settled into adjoining pads. After allowing a decent amount of time for late arrivals, she launched into her presentation, beginning with a verbal overview of her most recent work, reading from her next report, and finally dimming the lights and initiating visuals.
So this was combat, she thought. This was the tactile actualization of one intelligent species attempting to destroy another: what the Amplitur had finally resorted to in their attempt to bring the members of the Weave into their all-encompassing Purpose. The unnatural act the representative species of the Weave had been compelled to embrace in order to preserve their independence. Praise to all Elevated Spirits for the existence of the prolific Massood, who had been one of the founding members of the Weave and who had carried the burden of actual fighting for so long.
Of course; certainly. " "No, you don't understand. I have exhausted the literature going back to the first contact between Humankind and the Weave. My own work has already moved beyond anything being done anywhere else. I need" She hesitated as she tried to couch her comments in the most persuasive possible dialect. " The senior didn't react immediately. " "Yes. I feel I can no longer advance by means of impersonal study. I have gone as far as I can. " "Brilliant. Highly original work. One might almost say ingratiating despite the unpleasant nature of the subject matter.