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Fermat dies in 1665 - his last theorem is unsolved
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Euler proves it for n=3
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Legendre & Dirichlet prove it for n=5
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Lamé proves it for n=7
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Wolfskehl offers prize for solution in the next 100 years
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Wiles proves it 🎉 pic.twitter.com/cFpYIHpMF0
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Rishi Bagree 🇮🇳
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Pythagorean theorem = 3^2 + 4^2 = 5^2
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You have to prove that there is no non-trivial whole number solution to the equation x^(n)+y^(n)=z^(n)
Where n is greater than 2
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Luis Batalha 🇵🇹🇺🇸
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Feynman's angle of attack on Fermat's Last Theorem is also really cool lbatalha.com/blog/feynman-o…
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John Carlos Baez
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Now would be a good time to remember Sophie Germain, who was barred from attending university but proved the equation x^p + y^p = z^p where p doesn't divide x,y,z has no solutions for primes p < 100.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Ge…
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alex n
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Link to the proof?
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SKZCartoons comics and stuff
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It's over a hundred pages long :)
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Roger Sauer
@rsauer3473
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The lesson here with Fermat is that if you’re going to prove something, prove it while you are alive. For example DeWille Frommer (1738-1805) was sure he had proved his alternative to theory of Gravity, which he called EarthSuck. But he died and the theory has yet to be proven.
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Timothy Gowers
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There goes my long-term plan for proving that P=/=NP.
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