"Fermat's Last Therom"
Date Submitted: 05/16/2002 00:30:46
Category: / Science & Technology / Mathematics
Length: 5 pages (1298 words)
Category: / Science & Technology / Mathematics
Length: 5 pages (1298 words)
Fermat's Last Theorem
Pierre de Fermat was one of the most famous number theorists in history, but he was not a mathematician. He was a lawyer who served at the highest level of the criminal court in Toulouse ( Mahoney 3). Yet this amateur came up with an equation that stumped mathematicians for over 350 years after he scribbled it down as a note. He stated
that the equation
has no non-zero integer solutions for x, y, and …
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…nature can dish out. We have come so far from stone tools and horse drawn carriages that there are truly no limitations to what we can do if we just put our mind to it.
Works Cited
M S Mahoney. The Mathematical Career of Pierre de Fermat. Princeton, 1994.
O'Connor, John J. Pierre de Fermat. St Andrews, Scottland: JOC/EFR, Dec 1996. The
MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
http://www.vma.bme.hu/mathhist/index.html. Nov 21, 1999.
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