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Fermat's Conjecture

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Fermat's Conjecture

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  1. ANDY NICHOLS

  2. FERMAT’S CONJECTURE A PRESENTATION BY ANDY NICHOLS

  3. PIERRE DE FERMAT (1601-1665)

  4. PASCAL

  5. 10 3 6 14 7 5

  6. JAPAN: 1955 TANIYAMA SHIMURA THE TANIYAMA-SHIMURA CONJECTURE: ALL ELLIPTIC CURVES ARE MODULAR

  7. TORUS

  8. JAPAN: 1955 TANIYAMA SHIMURA THE TANIYAMA-SHIMURA CONJECTURE: ALL ELLIPTIC CURVES ARE MODULAR

  9. GERMANY: 1984 FREY

  10. ENGLAND: 1986 WILES

  11. PROVE PROVE

  12. THE PROOF (PBS)

  13. CONCLUSION

  14. REFERENCES Burton, D. M. (2011). Elementary Number Theory (7th ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill. Cox, D. A. (1994). Introduction to Fermat’s Last Theorem. Retrieved fromhttp://math.stanford.edu/~lekheng/flt/cox.pdf Katz, V. J. (2009). A History of Mathematics (3rd ed.). Boston: Addison-Wesley. Lynch, J. & Singh, S. (1997). The Proof [Television series episode]. In P. Apsell, NOVA. Boston, MA: Public Broadcasting Service. O’Connor, J.J. & Robertson, E.F. (1996). Pierre de Fermat. Retrieved from http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Fermat.html Weisstein, E. W. (2014). Fermat’s Last Theorem. In MathWorld – A Wolfram Web Resource. Retrieved fromhttp://mathworld.wolfram.com/FermatsLastTheorem.html

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