In the 17th century the French mathematician Pierre de Fermat set a challenge for future generations of mathematicians—prove that there are no whole number solutions for the following closely ...

Mathematicians hope to develop a computerised proof of Fermat’s last theorem, an infamous statement about numbers that has beguiled them for centuries, in an ambitious, multi-year project that ...

17th century French mathematician Pierre de Fermat came up with this theorem many years ago, but was unable to prove it in his own lifetime. The theorem states that no three positive integers a ...