Fermat's Last Theorem finally proved after 358 years

Mathematics
Fermat's Last Theorem finally proved after 358 years

After 358 years, Andrew Wiles finally proved Fermat's Last Theorem in 1994, solving one of mathematics' most enduring and challenging puzzles.

For 358 years, mathematicians were stumped by Fermat's Last Theorem, a puzzle proposed in 1637. French mathematician Pierre de Fermat claimed he had a "marvelous proof" that no three positive integers a, b, and c could satisfy a^n + b^n = c^n for n greater than 2, but never wrote it down. This margin note became one of history's greatest mathematical challenges.

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