Andrew Wiles devoted much of his entire career to proving Fermat's Last Theorem, the world's most famous mathematical problem. In 1993, he made front-page headlines when he announced a proof of ...

The tale of Fermat's last theorem took hundreds of years and included tantalising twists, disappointing errors and a contribution from the most unlikely cartoon mathematician imaginable ...

so the challenge has been to rediscover the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem. An infinite number of other equations remained, and mathematicians still had to demonstrate that none of these had any ...

THE “last theorem of Fermat” states that if x, y, z, p denote positive integers, the equation X p + Y p =Z p is impossible if p exceeds 2: thus ho cube can be the sum of two cubes, and so on.

Now, a team of mathematicians led by a prominent Kyoto University professor has offered an alternative proof to Fermat's Last Theorem, the potential second solution in the past quarter-century.