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, November 02, 2006

Bernhard Riemann

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Bernhard Riemann was born in the Kingdom of Hanover (now, Germany) on September 17, 1826. He was the second of six children. He was home s...
Sunday, October 29, 2006

Bernoulli Numbers and the Riemann Zeta Function

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Leonhard Euler used the Bernoulli numbers to generalize his solution to the Basel Problem . This is the problem that put Euler on the map m...
Thursday, October 26, 2006

Bernoulli Polynomials

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In today's blog, I introduce Bernoulli polynomials and show how they can be used to present an even shorter version of the summation for...
Monday, October 23, 2006

A Generating Function for the Bernoulli Numbers

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In my previous blog , I defined the Bernoulli numbers using a recurrence relation: In today's blog, I will show how the Bernoulli numbe...
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Saturday, October 21, 2006

Bernoulli Numbers

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The Bernoulli numbers were first identified by Jakob Bernoulli in Ars Conjectandi , a work that was published after his death. The Bernoull...
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