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.

Saturday, September 26, 2009

Joseph Liouville

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Joseph Liouville was born on March 24, 1809 in Saint-Omer, France. His father was an officer in Napoleon's army so for his earliest yea...
Friday, September 25, 2009

Kronecker's Theorem: An Example

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In a previous blog , I presented Kronecker's Theorem. Today, I will show how it can be used to prove that an equation is not algebraical...

Kronecker's Theorem: The Proof

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The content in today's blog is taken directly from David Antin's translation of Heinrich Dorrie's 100 Great Problems of Elementa...
Thursday, September 24, 2009

Kronecker's Theorem: Lemmas on Complex Conjugates

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The content in today's blog is taken directly from David Antin's translation of Heinrich Dorrie's 100 Great Problems of Elementa...
Sunday, September 13, 2009

Kronecker's Theorem: Some Lemmas on Irreducible Polynomials

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Leopold Kronecker's Theorem is based on Abel's famous theorem . Today, I will present some lemmas that I will use in establishing ...
Wednesday, September 09, 2009

Waring's Method

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In today's blog, I will show Edward Waring 's method for expressing any symmetric polynomial in terms of the elementary symmetric p...
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