Fermat’s last theorem

Fermat s last theorem survived for 350 years as a hypothesis until English mathematician Andrew Wiles,... 

Singh, S. (1997) Fermat s Last Theorem, Fourth Estate, London. 

Stewart, Ian, and David Tall. Algebraic Number Theory and Fermat s Last Theorem. 3d ed. Natick, Mass. AK Peters, 2002. 

The theorem known as Fermat s last theorem could also be referred to as Fermat s lost theorem because what was lost was the proof for the theorem that Fermat claimed to have. A mathematical statement without a proof is not a theorem but a conjecture awaiting proof or disproof. To introduce Fermat s last theorem, consider the equation... 

Despite numerous attempts, Fermat s last theorem remained unsolved until recent times. In 1995, English mathematician Wiles and his former student Taylor published the proof. Although this result many will characterize as great, it cannot be characterized as marvelous. After its announcement in 1994, some flaw was detected, and it took a year to be corrected. However, in the view that Fermat s last theoran was lost, we will probably never know what truly marvelous proofs look like. 

Clearly, if the proof of Fermat s last theorem is correct, and nobody appears to challenge it, then the equation... 

Who, for example, can fail to be inspired by reading, in his own words, Fermat s statement of his famous Last Theorem and his claim to have found a truly marvelous proof of this magnificent theorem An additional bonus is the insight one gains into the process which guided Fermat to his remarkable and surprising conclusion. The fact that the problem itself eluded all attempts at solution for some 350 years, finally yielding in the... 

Fermat wrote his famous Last Theorem in the margin of a book some time in the late 1630s. He said that the equation x" + y" = z"has no solutions in whole numbers if n is greater than 2. Mathematicians have been trying to prove or disprove this theorem for centuries. Princeton LFniversity professor Andr J. Wiles apparently had proved it correct but later flaws were found in his proof. By late 1994 Wiles thought the flaws had been solved. Wiles announced in June 1992 that he had proved Fermat right. However, it will take several years before other mathematicians will be able to verify Wiles s proof. 

S. Singh, Fermat Last Theorem, Fourth Estate Ltd., London, 2002. 

Fermat De Pierre (1601—1665) Fr. math., devised principle of least time (action) and Fermat s small and big (last) theorems, gravity reciprocal attraction, father of modem theory of numbers, probabilities Feynman Richard Phillips (1918-1988) US. phys., quantum electrodynamics, devised Feynman diagrams as means for accounting possible particle transformations ( Theory of Fundamental Processes 1961)... 

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