Umberto Eco - Will books become obsolete?

"Mike Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> At the beginning of November, [Umberto Eco] gave a lecture at 
> the newly opened Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt and, we were 
> glad to discover, Al-Ahram Weekly published the text.
>
>http://p2pnet.net/ez/index.php/news/content/view/full/277/

Nice lecture. Worth reading. At one point Eco says:

"Finnegans Wake is certainly open to many interpretations, 
but it is certain that it will never provide you with a 
demonstration of Fermat's last theorem"

I believe I recently found the right book to replace 
James Joyce here. Algebraic Number Theory and Fermat's 
Last Theorem, by Ian Stewart and David Tall (2002). 
AFAIK it's the first published book that includes all 
the math you need to know to understand Andrew Wiles's 
proof, and it's readable by any math undergrad. It 
only runs to 301 pages. Before this you had to scramble 
around in various articles and books to get the right 
background.