Sunday, May 22, 2011

Fermat's Last theorem

Show that no solution exists for the following equation...

xn + yn = zn

x, y and z are integers and n > 2

(For n = 2, the above equation is known as Pythagoras Equation and infinite number of solution are possible)

It took mathematicians three and a half century to solve this problem! Here is a blog about this problem (It lists several books on this problem). Here is the wikipedia link and here is a sketch of proof.