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From Fermat little theorem to 'la theoreme "dernier" du Fermat -- and the next one'
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Mar 14, 2013 9:59 PM
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thus: Furthermore, this may have been one of his earliest proofs > in the theory of numbers -- which science he created, > mostly using right trigona -- and this is highlighted > by the fact taht he *later* produced the proof > for teh very special case of the exponent, n = 4. All > of the other cases can be made for only prime exponents, > since it is easy to prove that composite exponents > -- other than 2x2 -- reduce to the case for prime ones.
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