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.

Sunday, March 02, 2008

Gauss: Proof that all roots of unity are solvable by radicals

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After Carl Friedrich Gauss had solved the seventeenth root of unity , he proceed to generalize this result to show that all roots of unity ...
Sunday, February 24, 2008

Dedekind: irreducibility of Φp over Q(μk)

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Carl Friedrich Gauss made an assumption about the irreducibility of Φ p over Q(μ k ) . This assumption is correct but the proof of this a...
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