In number theory, Fermat's Last Theorem (sometimes called Fermat's conjecture, especially in older texts) states that no three positive integers a, b,...

Together with Ribet's theorem, it provides a proof for Fermat's Last Theorem. Both Fermat's Last Theorem and the modularity theorem were believed to be...

Pierre de Fermat, who stated it in 1640. It is called the "little theorem" to distinguish it from Fermat's Last Theorem. Pierre de Fermat first stated...

Fermat's Last Theorem is a popular science book (1997) by Simon Singh. It tells the story of the search for a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, first conjectured...

1986 that it implies Fermat's Last Theorem. He did this by attempting to show that any counterexample to Fermat's Last Theorem would imply the existence...

probability, and optics. He is best known for his Fermat's principle for light propagation and his Fermat's Last Theorem in number theory, which he described in...

as "Fermat's Last Theorem" has repeatedly received attention in fiction and popular culture. It was proved by Andrew Wiles in 1994. The theorem plays...

mathematician Pierre de Fermat engendered many theorems. Fermat's theorem may refer to one of the following theorems: Fermat's Last Theorem, about integer solutions...

proved Fermat's Last Theorem, Savant published the book The World's Most Famous Math Problem (October 1993), which surveys the history of Fermat's Last Theorem...

dealt with Fermat's Last Theorem. In 1815, after the elasticity contest, the academy offered a prize for a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem. It reawakened...

falsity of conjectures of this type. In number theory, Fermat's Last Theorem (sometimes called Fermat's conjecture, especially in older texts) states that...

Fermat's Enigma. New York: Anchor Books. pp. 60–62. ISBN 978-0-385-49362-8. Wiles, Andrew (1995). "Modular elliptic curves and Fermat's Last Theorem"...

Proof of Fermat's last theorem may refer to: Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem Proof of Fermat's Last Theorem for specific exponents This disambiguation...

Fermat's Last Theorem is a theorem in number theory, originally stated by Pierre de Fermat in 1637 and proven by Andrew Wiles in 1995. The statement of...

Oxford, specialising in number theory. He is best known for proving Fermat's Last Theorem, for which he was awarded the 2016 Abel Prize and the 2017 Copley...

for "Same, Opposite, Always Positive", helps recall of the signs: Fermat's last theorem in the case of exponent 3 states that the sum of two non-zero integer...

Fermat's right triangle theorem is a non-existence proof in number theory, published in 1670 among the works of Pierre de Fermat, soon after his death...

modern algebra and number theory because of their relation with Fermat's Last Theorem. It was in the process of his deep investigations of the arithmetic...

theorem is a statement about the divisibility of solutions to the equation x p + y p = z p {\displaystyle x^{p}+y^{p}=z^{p}} of Fermat's Last Theorem...

Ken Ribet. The proof was a significant step towards the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem (FLT). As shown by Serre and Ribet, the Taniyama–Shimura conjecture...

Arithmetica, of which only a portion has survived. Fermat's Last Theorem was first conjectured by Pierre de Fermat in 1637, famously in the margin of a copy of...

Arthur Wieferich in 1909 in works pertaining to Fermat's Last Theorem, at which time both of Fermat's theorems were already well known to mathematicians. Since...

believed to be true. Fermat's Last Theorem was historically called a theorem, although, for centuries, it was only a conjecture. A theorem is a statement that...

particle physicist. His written works include Fermat's Last Theorem (in the United States titled Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest...

in 1857 by showing that for the "first case" of Fermat's Last Theorem (see Sophie Germain's theorem) it is sufficient to establish that either (p, p...

who used them in her investigations of Fermat's Last Theorem. One attempt by Germain to prove Fermat’s Last Theorem was to let p be a prime number of the...

understand but are very difficult to solve. Examples of this are Fermat's Last Theorem, which was proved 358 years after the original formulation, and...

became famous as Fermat's Last Theorem. It was not until 1995 that it was proven by the British mathematician Andrew Wiles. In 1657, Fermat attempted to solve...

theorem of arithmetic Fermat's Last Theorem Blog: Unique Factorization, a blog that covers the history of Fermat's Last Theorem from Diophantus of Alexandria...

curve from a purported solution to the Fermat equation, that is central to Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem. He studied mathematics and physics at...