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Pierre de Fermat

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Cuius rei demonstrationem mirabilem sane detexi hanc marginis exiguitas non caperet.
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I have discovered a truly remarkable proof of this theorem which this margin is too small to contain.
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Note written on the margins of his copy of Claude-Gaspar Bachet's translation of the famous Arithmetica of Diophantus, this was taken as an indication of what became known as Fermat's last theorem, a correct proof for which would be found only 357 years later; as quoted in Number Theory in Science and Communication (1997) by Manfred Robert Schroeder

 
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