On June 23, 1993, the mathematician Andrew Wiles gave the last of three lectures detailing his solution to Fermat’s last theorem, a problem that had remained unsolved for three and a half centuries.

Like many math students, I had dreams of mathematical greatness. I thought I was close once. A difficult algebra problem in college kept me working late into the night. After hours of struggle, I felt ...

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A mathematician offers to sell his soul to the devil for a proof or disproof of Fermat's Last Theorem. Based on "The Devil and Simon Flagg" by Arthur Porges.

British mathematician Sir Andrew Wiles has received the prestigious Abel Prize, worth over $700,000, for proving an infamous mathematical equation was indeed impossible to solve. Wiles is most famous ...

Mathletes rejoice! If you've made your way to Google's homepage this morning, you noticed today's Google Doodle, a chalkboard littered with an equation, which pays homage to the great French ...