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In the margin of his copy of Bachet’s edition of the works of Diophantus, 1 Fermat wrote: p]“It is impossible to separate a cube into two cubes, or a biquadrate into two biquadrates, or in general any power higher than the second into powers of like degree; I have discovered a truly marvelous proof, which this margin is too small to contain.”
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(1999). The Problem. In: Fermat’s Last Theorem for Amateurs. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-21692-8_1
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