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"The page of Arithmetica which inspired Fermat to create the Last Theorem discussed various aspects of Pythagoras’ Theorem, which states that: In a right-angled triangle the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides" (Singh, n.d.).
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"Fermat conjectured that there were no non-zero
integer solutions for x and y and z when n
was greater than 2" (Ratner, 2009(). Image adapted from Goodreads. (1998, September 08). Fermat's Last Theorem [Image}. Retrieved May 24, 2020, from https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38412.Fermat_s_Enigma -
Paul Wolfskehl worked on proving Fermat’s Last Theorem but he realized that he reached a dead end; however, he rewrote his will and bestowed 100,000 Marks to whoever succeeded in proving the theorem (Singh, n.d.). The Wolfskhel prize was then publicly announced in 1906.
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"Andrew Wiles of Princeton University fi nally proved the
350-year-old marginalized theorem, which
appeared on the front page of the New York
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Christophe Breuil, Brian Conrad, Fred
Diamond and Richard Taylor proved the full conjecture by using
many of the methods that were used in Andrew Wiles' 1995 published work (Ratner, 2009).
