Fermat's Last Theorem

Paolo Ruffini was born on September 22, 1765 in what is today Italy. In 1783, he entered the University of Modena where he studied geometry...

It was not enough for Carl Friedrich Gauss to prove the constructibility a heptadecagon (a seventeen sided polygon). He generalized the i...

While of all Pierre de Fermat's proposed theorems really turned out to be theorems, not all of his conjectures turned out to be true. I...

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

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