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Amir Aczel, Author of Scientific Cliffhanger, Dies at 65
Amir D. Aczel, a science writer who took readers on a mathematical mystery tour in “Fermat’s Last Theorem,” his account of how a famous 300-year-old problem in number theory was finally solved in the 1990s, and went on to write more than a dozen popular books on intriguing scientific ideas and discoveries, died on Nov. 26 in Nîmes, in the south of France. He was 65. The cause was cancer, his wife, Debra Gross Aczel, said.
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