In the 17th century the French mathematician Pierre de Fermat set a challenge for future generations of mathematicians—prove that there are no whole number solutions for the following closely ...

Andrew Wiles devoted much of his entire career to proving Fermat's Last Theorem, the world's most famous mathematical problem. In 1993, he made front-page headlines when he announced a proof of ...

Mathematicians can now also count down to April, when mathematician and programmer Kevin Buzzard will release and begin updating his newly-announced plans for a computer coded proof of Fermat’s ...

Mathematicians hope to develop a computerised proof of Fermat’s last theorem, an infamous statement about numbers that has beguiled them for centuries, in an ambitious, multi-year project that ...

LONDON: Fermat Capital Management, one of the world’s biggest investors in catastrophe bonds (cat bonds), says anxiety about this year’s hurricane season has already left a meaningful dent on ...

Pierre de Fermat studierte dieses Buch gegen Ende der 1630er Jahre, wobei er häufig den großzügigen Rand dazu benutzte, Kommentare, Ideen oder Erweiterungen zu Diophantos’ Aufgaben aufzuschreiben. Das ...

Now, a team of mathematicians led by a prominent Kyoto University professor has offered an alternative proof to Fermat's Last Theorem, the potential second solution in the past quarter-century.

von Fermat in einem Brief an Frenicle de Bessy 1640 ohne Beweis mitgeteilte Behauptung: Ist p eine Primzahl, dann gilt für jede ganze Zahl a die Kongruenz a p ≡ a mod p; ist a nicht durch p teilbar, ...