Birth of Pierre de Fermat.(Brief Article)

History Today | August 1, 2001| | Copyright

August 17th, 1601

FERMAT WROTE HIS LAST Theorem, the Holy Grail of higher mathematics, in the margin of his copy of a text by a Greek mathematician of the third century AD, Diophantus, next to a discussion about splitting a squared number into two squares. `It is impossible,' he wrote, `for a cube to be written as the sum of two cubes or a fourth power to be written as the sum of two fourth powers or, in general, for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as the sum of two like powers.' Annoyingly and characteristically, he added that he ...

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