Pileggi, Nicholas

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Pileggi is a journalist and chronicler of the Mafia who is known for writing the realities of the US mob. He authored two nonfiction books about organized crime which became bestsellers and adapted into movies. These are the 'Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family' and 'Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas.'

Author: Smith, Olivia Jane
Publisher: H.W. Wilson Co.
Publication Name: Current Biography
Subject: History
ISSN: 0011-3344
Year: 1999
Personalities, Organized crime, Bibliography, Nonfiction, Pileggi, Nicholas

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Wiles, Andrew J

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Andrew J. Wiles became a celebrity within the scientific community for his discovery of a proof to Fermat's last theorem. The solution to the theorem has puzzled mathematicians for centuries, but Wiles' obsession succeeded in devising a proof that covered all cases of the Pythagorean theorem.

Publisher: H.W. Wilson Co.
Publication Name: Current Biography
Subject: History
ISSN: 0011-3344
Year: 1996
Innovations, Mathematicians, Fermat's last theorem, Wiles, Andrew

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