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Get ready for a #MathAdventure! Ever stumbled upon Fermat's Last Theorem? It's a 358-year-old riddle that kept even the most brilliant minds guessing. Today, let's unravel this enigmatic tale of numbers, and celebrate the genius who solved it - Sir Andrew Wiles.
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Pierre de Fermat was an amateur mathematician. In his book, he made a bold claim: No three positive integers a, b, and c can satisfy the equation aⁿ + bⁿ = cⁿ for any integer value of n greater than 2. (2/16)
But here's the kicker. Fermat added, "I have discovered a truly marvellous proof of this, which this margin is too narrow to contain." And just like that, he left the world pondering. What was this elusive proof?(3/16)
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