Watch this documentary from the BBC about Fermat's last theorem and answer the questions:
First part:
- How long was Andrew Wiles working in complete secrecy in the solution of the Fermat's theorem?
- In what century did Fermat lived?
- Write the formula of Pythagora's theorem.
- Fermat said that you will never find numbers which fit the equation. What equation?
- Fermat did not write the solution of his theorem. Why?
- After Wiles became a mathematician, in what university did he work for the first time?
- According to Wiles, the elliptic curves he was studying were similar to what?
- Who suggested that every elliptic curve was really a modular form in disguise?
- How did he die?
- In what year Frey had the idea of considering that there are solutions for Fermat's equation?
Second part:
- Andrew Wiles was embarked in one of the most wonderful problems of maths in history. How long did it take to him just to find the strategy of solving it?
- Wiles was at a conference where he found out that an student had discovered the class number formula he needed to solve the problem. When did it happened?
- What was the name of the student?
- After six years of secrecy, he spoke to one person about his investigations. Who?
- What was the name of the second person he spoke to about his investigations?
- When he was going to speak in public for the first time about his investigations, people used to asked him: What are you going to say? What did he answer to this?
- How long was Nick studying Wiles' solution to see if it was right?
- There was a problem in the solution. In what method?
- When Wiles fixed his proof, he told that to his wife. What did she thought he was talking about?
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