Fermat's Last Theorem

For those interested in the history behind this proof, you may want to start here . For those who would like to start at the beginning of th...

For those interested in the history behind this proof, you may want to start here . The proof presented is based on two books: Harold M. Ed...

Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet was born on February 13, 1805 in Duren which at the time was part of Napoleon's empire. His family...

Adrien-Marie Legendre did not like to talk about his personal life. His colleague Simeon Poisson wrote: Our colleague has often expressed ...

The proof for Fermat's Last Theorem n = 5 depends on Continued Fractions . A Continued Fraction is an expression of the following form:...

Joseph-Louis Lagrange was born in Turin, Italy on January 25, 1736. His original name was Giuseppe Luigi Lagrangia. He would later change hi...

The Binomial Theorem was first presented by Sir Isaac Newton . He came up with this principle based on the work done by Blaise Pascal ( Pas...

Before we can proceed to the Binomial Theorem, we need to review a lemma that was introduced in the west by Blaise Pascal and which is tod...