Fermat's Last Theorem

The purpose of this blog is to present the story behind Fermat's Last Theorem and Wiles' proof in a way accessible to the mathematical amateur.

Thursday, October 02, 2008

Sir William Rowan Hamilton

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William Rowan Hamilton was born on August 4, 1805 in Dublin, Ireland. He was the fourth of nine children. Young William showed tremendous ...
Wednesday, October 01, 2008

Abel's Impossibility Proof

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Today's proof is taken from Peter Pesic's translation of Niels Abel's original 1824 proof. A special thanks to Peter for helpi...
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Saturday, September 27, 2008

Abel's Impossibility Proof: Radicals of the form R(1/m)

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In today's blog, I will show an important step in the famous proof by Niels Abel that there is no general solution to the quintic equat...
Sunday, September 07, 2008

Abel's Proof: Step Two

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In today's blog, I will cover step 2 of the original proof by Niels Abel on the quintic equation. The content in today's blog is ta...
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