{"id":8382,"date":"2013-07-26T13:44:54","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T05:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=8382"},"modified":"2014-11-15T12:24:18","modified_gmt":"2014-11-15T04:24:18","slug":"friday-math-movie-fermats-last-theorem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-fermats-last-theorem-8382","title":{"rendered":"Friday math movie: Fermat&#8217;s Last Theorem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fermat's Last Theorem, like all good problems, was deceptively simple, yet extraordinarily difficult to solve.<\/p>\n<p>It goes:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>There are no integer solutions for <em>a<\/em>, <em>b<\/em>, and <em>c<\/em> for the equation <em>a<sup>n<\/sup> + b<sup>n<\/sup> = c<sup>n<\/sup><\/em>, where <em>n<\/em> > 2.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Fermat claimed to have a proof 350 years ago, but he wrote there was \"not enough room in the margin\" to write it. It's now doubted that Fermat actually did have a proof, since he didn't have access to enough mathematical techniques in his day.<\/p>\n<p>The video below is Simon Singh's BBC Horizon documentary on the fascinating story surrounding the proof of this theorem.<\/p>\n<div class=\"videoBG\">\n<iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"303\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7FnXgprKgSE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>If you get a chance, read <em class=\"textem\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fermats-Enigma-Greatest-Mathematical-Problem\/dp\/0385493622\">Fermat's Enigma<\/a><\/em>, Singh's easily digested book covering the same span of ideas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\"><a href=\"#respond\" id=\"comms\">Be the first to comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-fermats-last-theorem-8382\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2013\/07\/fermat_th.jpg\" alt=\"Fermat's Last Theorem\" width=\"128\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgRt\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHere's a great story involving an intriguing proof that spans over 350 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[125],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8382"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}