Fermat's Last Theorem

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title: Fermat's Last Theorem
text: In number theory, Fermat's Last Theorem states that no three positive integers a, b, and c satisfy the equation an + bn = cn for any integer value of n greater than 2. The cases n = 1 and n = 2 have been known since antiquity to have infinitely many solutions. The proposition was first stated as a theorem by Pierre de Fermat around 1637 in the margin of a copy of Arithmetica. Fermat added that he had a proof that was too large to fit in the margin. Although other statements claimed by Fermat wit
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description: 17th-century conjecture proved by Andrew Wiles in 1994
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date created: 2001-10-10T17:46:42Z
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