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The research project that occupied Dirichlet so thoroughly between 1822 and 1825, and because of which he delayed and heavily abbreviated his trip home, was his contribution to proving Fermat’s so-called Last Theorem for the case \(n = 5\).
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Berlin. Staatsbibliothek. Handschriftenabteilung. Dirichlet Nachlass.
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Berlin. Staatsbibliothek. Handschriftenabteilung. Dirichlet Nachlass.
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Mémoires de l’Académie des Sciences, v. 8 (1829), Procès-Verbaux, séance 18 juillet 1825:241.
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Legendre 1827:35n.
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See the discussions of 1826 and 1828c in Chap. 5 for further details.
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See Chap. 5 below.
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Weil 1983:338.
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Merzbach, U.C. (2018). First Success. In: Dirichlet. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01073-7_3
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