Andrew Wiles and Fermat

In context of previous post on mathematical problems, it was interesting to carry on, and look at other math issues here. So these links help provide a interesting commentaries, on other math problems, that are interesting and thought provoking.

 

Fermat was a 17th-century mathematician who wrote a note in the margin of his book stating a particular proposition and claiming to have proved it. His proposition was about an equation which is closely related to Pythagoras' equation. Pythagoras' equation gives you:
x² + y² = z²

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