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THE “last theorem of Fermat” states that if x, y, z, p denote positive integers, the equation Xp + Yp=Zp is impossible if p exceeds 2: thus ho cube can be the sum of two cubes, and so on. If the theorem is true when p is 4, or an odd prime, it is true for all other integral values of p. For three centuries this theorem has baffled the efforts of all who have attacked it, although it has attracted the attention of all first-rate arithmeticians, and a great number of amateurs. For P = 3, 4, 5, 7 comparatively simple proofs have been discovered; but so far none of these has led to a complete generalisation.
Three Lectures on Fermat's Last Theorem.
By L. J. Mordell. Pp. vii+31. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1921.) 4s. net.
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M., G. Three Lectures on Fermat's Last Theorem . Nature 109, 4 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/109004a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/109004a0