{"id":6506,"date":"2012-10-24T11:41:53","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T07:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/?p=6506"},"modified":"2015-09-30T08:14:49","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T08:14:49","slug":"this-week-in-mathematics-history-fermats-last-theorem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/2012\/10\/24\/this-week-in-mathematics-history-fermats-last-theorem\/","title":{"rendered":"This week in Mathematics History &#8211; Fermat&#8217;s Last Theorem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On October 26th 1994 an announcement was made that one of the most famous problems in the history of Mathematics had been solved &#8211; Fermat&#8217;s Last Theorem. Until 1995 it was recorded in The Guinness Book of World Records as one of the world&#8217;s &#8216;most difficult mathematical problems&#8217;, which has been investigated by some of the greatest mathematicians in history.<\/p>\n<p>Fermat&#8217;s Last Theorem states that no three positive integers (whole numbers) a, b and c can satisfy the equation below for a value of n greater than two:<\/p>\n<p>a<sup>n<\/sup> + b<sup>n<\/sup> = c<sup>n\u00a0 \u00a0<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>(Where n = 2, we have the famous Pythagoras&#8217; Theorem for finding the lengths of sides in a right angled triangle)<\/p>\n<p>Professor Andrew Wiles of Oxford University finally proved the Theorem, first stated in the margin of a book by Pierre de Fermat in 1637, in the mid 1990&#8217;s after several years work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 26th 1994 an announcement was made that one of the most famous problems in the history of Mathematics had been solved &#8211; Fermat&#8217;s Last Theorem. Until 1995 it was recorded in The Guinness Book of World Records as one of the world&#8217;s &#8216;most difficult mathematical problems&#8217;, which has been investigated by some of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-secondary-maths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}