Fermat's Last Theorem

Jan 15, 1996

0h 50m

★ 9.0

Overview

Andrew Wiles stumbled across the world's greatest mathematical puzzle, Fermat's Theorem, as a ten-year-old schoolboy, beginning a 30-year quest with just one goal in mind: to solve the problem that has baffled minds for three centuries.

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BBC

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7.0

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7.2

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8.0

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7.5

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5.7

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4.5

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7.4

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7.0

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0.0

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8.0

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9.0

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0.0

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0.0

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0.0

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6.5

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8.0

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6.0

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6.0

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