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, July 16, 2007

Newton's Identities: Newton's Formula

Newton's identities (see here for an introduction to Newton's identities) are relationships between the roots of a cubic polynomial...

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Newton's Identities: Vandermonde Matrix

In today's blog, I will provide a formula for obtaining the determinant of the Vandermonde matrix. For review of determinants of n x n...

Monday, February 19, 2007

Newton's Identities: Fundamental Theorem on Symmetric Polynomials

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

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