He didn't want to go too overboard so following Fermat's steps he left the other cases as an exercise to the reader
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An even more prodigious youngster was Herman Fichtnicht (1799-1875) who at the age of five was able to turn water from the Elbe into fine wine simply by breaking into his uncle Jacob’s vineyard and rolling bottles down the gentle slope into the lapping waves.
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“In number theory, Fermat's Last Theorem states that no three positive integers a, b, and c satisfy the equation aⁿ + bⁿ = cⁿ for any integer value of n greater than 2. The cases n = 1 and n = 2 have been known since antiquity to have an infinite number of solutions” Wikipedia
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First proof by: Andrew Wiles First proof in: 1995 Conjectured by: Pierre de Fermat Conjectured in: 1637 Field: Number theory
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4^5 + 6^5 = [ (6/4)^5 + 1 ] × 4^5 G^x + A^x = [ (G/A)^x + 1 ] × A^x G^x - A^x = [ (G/A)^x - 1 ] × A^x When G/A is top heavy and x is any positive integer solution.
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Mathematicians like Dirichlet need boundaries.
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