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# On Fermat's Last Theorem

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... Nonetheless, the availability of the code (or proof) can be tremendously helpful to verify or re-implement the method. It is indeed much easier to verify a result (with the initial code or proof), then it is to produce from nothing (this is perhaps most poignantly illustrated by the longevity of the lack of proof for Fermat's last theorem (Wikipedia, 2020).) ...
... There have been a great many erroneous proofs of FLT, see [67]. The list might well include Fermat's proof, referred to in his marginal note -we will never know with certainty, but in view of developments over the next 350 years, it seems very unlikely that his proof was correct. ...
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... Nonetheless, the availability of the code (or proof) can be tremendously helpful to verify or re-implement the method. It is indeed much easier to verify a result (with the initial code or proof), then it is to produce from nothing (this is perhaps most poignantly illustrated by the longevity of the lack of proof for Fermats last theorem (Wikipedia, 2020).) ...
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... 5. There was a cash prize offered for its solution. To quote [81] Interest in FLT rocketed when a German doctor and amateur mathematician called Paul Wolfskehl offered a huge cash prize in 1908 for its solution. Many people, mostly amateur mathematicians, sent in their potential solutions to their nearest universities. ...
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