Fermat's Last Theorem

In today's blog, I will present Paolo Ruffini's proof that if n ≥ 5 and F is a splitting field, then F/k is not a radical tower....

Pierre Larent Wantzel was born on June 5, 1814 in Paris, France. His father was a professor of applied mathematics at the Ecole speciale du...

The content in today's blog is taken from the essay by Michael I. Rosen entitled "Niels Hendrik Abel and Equations of the Fifth Deg...

The content in today's blog is taken from the essay by Michael I. Rosen entitled "Niels Hendrik Abel and Equations of the Fifth Deg...

When Niels Abel prepared his impossibility proof , he used the vocabulary of the mathematics of his time. As a result of his work and the ...

Niels Abel submitted his impossibility proof for the quintic equation in 1824. Because of lack of funds, he was forced to condense his pr...

William Rowan Hamilton was born on August 4, 1805 in Dublin, Ireland. He was the fourth of nine children. Young William showed tremendous ...

Today's proof is taken from Peter Pesic's translation of Niels Abel's original 1824 proof. A special thanks to Peter for helpi...