Fermat's Last Theorem - Numberphile
Simon Singh on Fermat's Last Theorem. Simpsons book: http://amzn.to/1fKe4Yo Fermat book: http://amzn.to/1jWqMTa More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ EXTRA FOOTAGE: http://youtu.b...
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A problem worthy of attack proves its worth by fighting back.And that's what Fermat's last theorem was doing, it was fighting back.So we are talking about Fermat's last theorem I suppose the place to start is with Fermat,Pierre de Fermat,he was a 17th-century mathematician living and working inFrance - not working as a mathematicianbut working as a judge. Every evening he'd go home - and math was his hobby -one evening he was looking at an equationwhich looks a bit like Pythagoras' equation which I suppose isX squared plus Y squared equals Z squared.And he was looking for whole number solutions to that equation, and there arelots, you know there's 3 squared plus4 squared, 5 squared. So that's a whole number ...
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A problem worthy of attack proves its worth by fighting back.And that's what Fermat's last theorem was doing, it was fighting back.So we are talking about Fermat's last theorem I suppose the place to start is with Fermat,Pierre de Fermat,he was a 17th-century mathematician living and working inFrance - not working as a mathematicianbut working as a judge. Every evening he'd go home - and math was his hobby -one evening he was looking at an equationwhich looks a bit like Pythagoras' equation which I suppose isX squared plus Y squared equals Z squared.And he was looking for whole number solutions to that equation, and there arelots, you know there's 3 squared plus4 squared, 5 squared. So that's a whole number ...
