Fermat's Last Theorem

Abraham de Moivre was born on May 26, 1667 in Champagne, France. His parents were protestants. When in 1685, Louis XIV overturned the Edic...

Roger Cotes thoroughly investigated the factorization of x 4 + a 4 . In doing so, he found the following formulas which he presented with...

Roger Cotes was born on July 10, 1682 in Burbage, England. His father was the rector of the town and he grew up with an older brother and y...

In 1702, Gottfried Leibniz wrote an important paper on the integration of rational fractions. It was well known that the time that ∫ dx/x ...

In 1675, Gottfried Leibniz was able to show the following Theorem: Theorem: π/4 = 1 - 1/3 + 1/5 - 1/7 + ... Proof: (1) D(tan -1 x)= 1/(x ...

Recently, I found out about a new Spanish movie coming out called Fermat's Room which gets its inspiration from the ideas of Pierre Fer...

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was born on July 1, 1646 in Leipzig, Saxony which, today, is part of Germany. His father was a professor of moral...

As mentioned earlier, Sir Isaac Newton 's main purpose in coming up with his "identities" (see here for introduction to Newto...

When Newton came up with his identities , he had a specific goal in mind. Even though his formula can be generalized to work with any degre...

In a previous blog, I talked about Newton's Identities and the formula that Sir Isaac Newton used to generate these identities. In to...