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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1994, an earthquake of a proof shook up the mathematical world. The mathematician Andrew Wiles had finally settled Fermat’s Last ...

Aranan Tarih Aralığı: 2025-6-12 / 2025-06-13 Aranan Kelime: consider the following differential equation 2y ty 2y 18 y 0 0 y 0 0 proceed as in example 3 and use the following theorem to reduce the ...

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