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.

Monday, February 19, 2007

Newton's Identities: Fundamental Theorem on Symmetric Polynomials

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In today's blog, I will present the Fundamental Theorem of Symmetric Polynomials. In my previous blog , I talked about symmetric polynom...

Newton's Identities: Symmetric Polynomials

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It is very easy to build an equation that has a certain set of solutions. If we wanted to build an equation where the solutions are 1,2,3,4,...
Friday, February 16, 2007

Newton's Identities

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In 1707, Sir Isaac Newton published a set of identities that would later become very important in the establishment of group theory. He sh...
Friday, February 09, 2007

Albert Girard

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Albert Girard was born in France in 1595. His family later moved to the Netherlands as religious refugees. Girard attended the Univeristy ...
Saturday, February 03, 2007

Van Roomen's Problem: Solution Explained

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In today's blog, I will provide the solution to Van Roomen's problem . Van Roomen's problem established François Viète as one ...
Sunday, January 21, 2007

Solving Van Roomen's Problem: Step Five

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In today's blog, I show how we can use the trigonometric identities in my previous blog to simplify Van Roomen's x and A examples....
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