On June 23, 1993, the mathematician Andrew Wiles gave the last of three lectures detailing his solution to Fermat's last theorem, a problem that had remained unsolved for three and a half centuries.

Pierre de Fermat scribbled a note in the margin of a math textbook in 1637, claiming he had a proof that was too large to fit in the space. It took 358 years for a human to actually prove him right.

Fermat's Last Theorem states that for any n greater than 2, there do not exist integer solutions to x^n + y^n = z^n where all of x, y, z are non-zero. This theorem intrigued and vexed mathematicians ...

For centuries, mathematicians tried to solve Fermat’s Last Theorem using only natural numbers. In a first, EU-funded scientists expanded this number system to include bigger number systems with exotic ...