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, March 13, 2008

Wantzel: Constructibility Criterion

The criterion presented in today's blog was known to Carl Friedrich Gauss in 1796 when he presented his criterion for the constructibil...

Sunday, March 02, 2008

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

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

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