Directory of Fermat's Last Theorem Resources

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Fermat's Last Theorem stated, in his words, "It is impossible to separate a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into two fourth powers, or in general, any power higher than the second into two like powers." This category is for history, proof, and conjectures related to the theorem.

Resources in This Category

• Beal Conjecture

  http://www.bealconjecture.com/
  The official Beal Conjecture site with information and links regarding the problem.

• Beal's Conjecture Disproved

  http://www.coolissues.com/mathematics/Beal/beal.htm
  Disproved for the same reasons Fermat's Last Theorem is proved by a binomial infinite series expansion

• Beal's Conjecture: A Search for Counterexamples

  http://www.norvig.com/beal.html
  Results of a computer search by Peter Norvig.

• Fermat's Last Theorem

  http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Fermat's_last_theorem.html
  A historical and biographical account.

• Fermat's Last Theorem -- from MathWorld

  http://mathworld.wolfram.com/FermatsLastTheorem.html
  Article in Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics.

• In Defense of Mr Fermat

  http://fermat.yolasite.com/
  A proof by Kerry M. Evans.

• NOVA Online | The Proof

  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/proof/
  NOVA Online presents The Proof, including an interview with Andrew Wiles, an essay on Sophie Germain, and the Pythagorean theorem.

• Occam Press

  http://www.occampress.com/
  Provides papers on several mathematical subjects, including Fermat's Last Theorem and the 3x + 1 Problem. One paper offers reasons why we might be close to a solution of the latter problem.

• On the Full Beal Conjecture

  http://beal.yolasite.com/
  An elementary proof of Beal's Conjecture given the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.

• Proof of Fermat's Last Theorem

  http://www.coolissues.com/mathematics/Fermat/fermat.htm
  An attempted elementary proof of FLT using binomial expansions.

• The Beal Conjecture

  http://www.math.unt.edu/~mauldin/beal.html
  $75,000 prized problem pertaining to the Diophantine equation of the form A^x + B^y = C^z where A, B, C, x, y and z are positive integers and x, y and z are all greater than 2, then A, B and C must have a common factor.

• Wiles, Ribet, Shimura-Taniyama-Weil and FLT

  http://math.albany.edu:8010/g/Math/topics/fermat/
  A collection of links based on the former e-math gopher archive.

 

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