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martes, 5 de mayo de 2015

Fermat's Last Theorem

Watch this documentary from the BBC about Fermat's last theorem and answer the questions:


First part:
  1. How long was Andrew Wiles working in complete secrecy in the solution of the Fermat's theorem? 
  2. In what century did Fermat lived?
  3. Write the formula of Pythagora's theorem.
  4. Fermat said that you will never find numbers which fit the equation. What equation?
  5. Fermat did not write the solution of his theorem. Why?
  6. After Wiles became a mathematician, in what university did he work for the first time?
  7. According to Wiles, the elliptic curves he was studying were similar to what?
  8. Who suggested that every elliptic curve was really a modular form in disguise?
  9. How did he die?
  10. In what year Frey had the idea of considering that there are solutions for Fermat's equation?

Second part:
  1. 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? 
  2. 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?
  3. What was the name of the student?
  4. After six years of secrecy, he spoke to one person about his investigations. Who?
  5. What was the name of the second person he spoke to about his investigations?
  6. 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?
  7. How long was Nick studying Wiles' solution to see if it was right?
  8. There was a problem in the solution. In what method?
  9. When Wiles fixed his proof, he told that to his wife. What did she thought he was talking about?

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