Fermats last theorem.

[Alatar]

I recently read a book about this.
My obsevation is that as it was ony solved recently, with new mathametical techniques, then what did Fermat prove?
Was he wrong all along and his brilliant prof flawed?

[Gary88]

he said that for any n greater than 2 the following is imposible
aⁿ+bⁿ =cⁿ as long as a b and c are non zero integers.
was disproved though as you say

[Alatar]

he said that for any n greater than 2 the following is imposible
aⁿ+bⁿ =cⁿ as long as a b and c are non zero integers.
was disproved though as you say

No it was proved, but using some techinques that fermat wold never have know about. Basicly by proving the Taniyama-Shimura conjecture.

That makes me think that the prince of amateurs was wrong, and he had not got a prof.

[ajm317]

Well, of course no one's ever seen Fermat's proof, so it's entirely possible it's flawed.

But at the same time, sometimes in math there's a clever way of doing things, and sometimes it's SO clever only a couple people can see it. The primary problem in proving Fermat's theorem was that nobody ever knew where to start until recently. Evidently Fermat thought he did.

We'll never know one way or the other.

[Ummon]

Now there's Riemann (and Goldbach) and we're done. :wink: