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The Fermats Margin

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Fermat wrote that he had a truly marvelous proof that a^n + b^n = c^n has no positive integer solutions for n > 2, but the margin was too small. How long did it take to prove?
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358 years - Andrew

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358 years - Andrew Wiles proved Fermats Last Theorem in 1995 using modern math Fermat could not have known.
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