Fermat's Last Theorem, first conjectured around 1637, was not proven until 1994 by mathematician Andrew Wiles.
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- List of mathematics history topics (en.wikipedia.org)
- https://www.ams.org/publicoutreach/feature-column/fcarc-fermat (ams.org)
- https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.03961 (arxiv.org)
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