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Fermat's Last Theorem — A 357-Year Hunt
A line Fermat wrote in the margin of Diophantus’s book in 1637 challenged generations of leading mathematicians. Euler, Germain, Dirichlet, Legendre, Kummer, and many others advanced the pursuit before Wiles completed it.
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1637
Toulouse
A Line in the Margin
Fermat wrote beside a Latin edition of Diophantus’s Arithmetica that x^n + y^n = z^n has no positive integer solutions for n > 2. He claimed a marvelous proof that the margin was too narrow to contain.
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