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#209 – Luís and João Batalha: Fermat’s Library and the Art of Studying Papers

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Is There a Solution to Ferans Last Ear?

Fermants last erm is actually a funny story. pierre de ferman was like a lawyer, and hehe wrote, likeon a book that he had a solution to fermans last er, which, but that didn't fit the margin of that book. And so formasist bysiclis states that there's no solution. If you have aa intergers a, b and c, there'sno solution. No one was able to figure that out until andrew wiles,. i think wasinin the nineties, was able to publish the solution - almost 300 pages long. So it's kind of an anecdote that there's a lot of knowledge and

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