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.

Tuesday, August 22, 2006

News: Grigory Perelman wins Fields Medal

Grigory Perelman , a Russian mathematician who may have solved Poincare Conjecture , has won the Fields Medal for his work on the Ricci Flow...

Monday, August 21, 2006

Kummer's Proof for Regular Primes: α^r

In today's blog, I continue the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem for regular primes . In today's blog, I go over a lemma which is ...

Sunday, August 20, 2006

Kummer's Proof for Regular Primes: Case I

In today's blog, I continue the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem for regular primes . Case I makes the assumption that x,y,z,λ are r...

Friday, August 18, 2006

Ideal Numbers: Distinct Congruence Classes Modulo an Ideal Number

Today's blog continues the proof for the existence of a class number for any set of cyclotomic integers. There is one last proof we nee...

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Ideal Numbers: Norm of an Ideal Number

In my last blog , I offered a definition of an ideal number . Based on this definition, it is possible to define a norm function that maps a...

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