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Also known as La conjetura de Fermat, teorema de wiles, La última conjetura de Fermat

theorem in number theory that there are no nontrivial integer solutions of xⁿ+yⁿ=zⁿ for integer n>2

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Fermat's Last Theorem states that you cannot find whole numbers that satisfy the equation x^n + y^n = z^n when n is any integer greater than 2, which contrasts with the well-known Pythagorean theorem that works perfectly for n=2. This seemingly simple statement went unproven for over 350 years and became one of mathematics' most famous unsolved problems until it was finally proven in 1995, making it a landmark achievement in number theory.

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Pierre de Fermat
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Category:Fermat's Last Theorem
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1637-00-00
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1638-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview

In number theory, Fermat's Last Theorem (sometimes called Fermat's conjecture, especially in older texts) states that there are no positive integers

a , b , c , n

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fermat's Last Theorem” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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