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Around 1636 Fermat conjectured that if n ≥ 3 and if x, y, z are integers such that x n + y n = z n then x, y, or z is equal to 0. This conjecture, usually called Fermat’s last theorem, was proved true in 1995 by Wiles.
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Ribenboim, P. (2001). Fermat’s Last Theorem for Regular Prime Exponents. In: Classical Theory of Algebraic Numbers. Universitext. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-21690-4_19
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