Fermat's Last Theorem and more can be proved more simply

Monday, March 4, 2013 - 11:30 in Mathematics & Economics

Mathematicians have shown Fermat's Last Theorem can be proved using only a small portion of Grothendieck's work. Specifically, the theorem can be justified using "finite order arithmetic."

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