If Stephen Sondheim can write a musical about Georges Seurat's pointillism, why shouldn't Joshua Rosenblum and Joanne Sydney Lessner write one about Pierre de Fermat's last theorem? Well, because they ...

This is part one of a two-part series. Part II: “A Mathematical Tragedy” is available at About Time. Sophie Germain was the first person to develop a realistic plan to prove Fermat’s Last Theorem.

Fermat's Last Theorem—the idea that a certain simple equation had no solutions— went unsolved for nearly 350 years until Oxford mathematician Andrew Wiles created a proof in 1995. Now, Case Western ...

19th-century mathematicians thought the “roots of unity” were the key to solving Fermat’s Last Theorem. Then they discovered a fatal flaw. Sometimes the usual numbers aren’t enough to solve a problem.

The proof of a mathematical conjecture–even one as famous as Fermat’s last theorem–may sound like an improbable subject for an off-Broadway-style musical. Yet there’s plenty of drama and passion in ...

Abstract Let D denote a disk of unit area. We call a set A ⊂ D perfect if it has measure 1/2 and, with respect to any reflection symmetry of D, the maximal symmetric subset of A has measure 1/4. We ...

Google’s Doodles have been brainier lately, and Wednesday’s Doodle is no exception. The doodle features a mathematical equation scribbled onto a chalkboard over the “erased” Google logo. What is this ...

The birthday of Pierre de Fermat, the 17th century French lawyer famous for the so-called 'Fermat's Last Theorem' mathematical puzzle, is celebrated in a Google Doodle today. Pierre de Fermat, was ...