| Florian Cajori - 1919 - 562 páginas
...separate a cube into two cubes, or a biquadrate into two biquadrates, or generally any power except a square into two powers with the same exponent. I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which however the margin is not large enough to contain." That Fermat actually... | |
| Morris Kline - 1990 - 434 páginas
...separate a cube into two cubes, or a biquadrate into two biquadrates, or generally any power except a square into two powers with the same exponent. I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which however the margin is not large enough to contain." Unfortunately, Fermat's... | |
| W.S. Anglin, J. Lambek - 1998 - 347 páginas
...separate a cube into two cubes, or a biquadratic into two biquadratics, or generally any power except a square into two powers with the same exponent. I...however, the margin is not large enough to contain' (p. 145, Heath's translation of the Arithmetica) . Fermat's assertion is called his 'Last Theorem',... | |
| Isabella G. Bashmakova, Joseph H. Silverman - 1997 - 110 páginas
...separate a cube into two cubes, or a biquadrate into two biquadrates, or generally any power except a square into two powers with the same exponent. I...however the margin is not large enough to contain." (See, for example, [4], p. 108.) This is Fermat's famous Last Theorem which has brought its author... | |
| Gareth A. Jones, Josephine M. Jones - 1998 - 328 páginas
...into two cubes, or a biquadrate [fourth power] into two biquadrates, or generally any power except a square into two powers with the same exponent. I...however the margin is not large enough to contain." In modern terminology, this becomes FLT as stated in Theorem 11.1. In his later correspondence, Fermat... | |
| David Ricks, Michael Silk - 2000 - 172 páginas
...separate a cube into two cubes or a biquadrate into two biquadrates. or generally any power except a square into two powers with the same exponent. I...however the margin is not large enough to contain'. " He thus formulated the theorem that became known as Fermat's last theorem and which Andrew Wiles... | |
| Constance Reid - 2004 - 306 páginas
...He did not prove his theorem but added regretfully to his note, "I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which, however, the margin is not large enough to contain." Today it is generally thought that the theorem is true, but that Fermat was mistaken when he said he... | |
| Barry Shell - 2005 - 220 páginas
...out that it didn't. But then he wrote, "It is impossible to separate any power except a square into 2 powers with the same exponent. I have discovered a...however the margin is not large enough to contain." To put it another way, he was saying the equation an + b" = cn would never work if n was anything other... | |
| Paul J. Nahin - 2006 - 422 páginas
...separate a cube into two cubes, or a biquadrate into two biquadrates, or generally any power except a square into two powers with the same exponent. I have discovered a truely marvellous proof of this, which however the margin is not large enough to contain.19 That is,... | |
| Thomas L. Heath - 1910 - 406 páginas
...squares2. biquadrate into two biquaclrates, or generally any power except a square into two pmi'ers with the same exponent. I have discovered a truly...really possess a proof of the general proposition that xm+ym — sm cannot be solved in rational numbers where m is any number >i? As Wertheim says, one is... | |
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