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Fermat's Last Theorem

23/06/2011 GMT

BBC World Service - Witness History, Fermat's Last Theorem

Andrew Wiles on solving the problem which had intrigued mathematicians for centuries

British mathematician Andrew Wiles talks about solving the problem which had intrigued mathematicians for centuries.

Solving Fermat's Last Theorem had intrigued mathematicians for centuries.

In June 1993 a British academic, Andrew Wiles, thought he'd cracked it. But then someone pointed out a flaw in his calculations and it took him another year to correct it.

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