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That is just the way a Japanese mathematician, Yoichi Miyaoka, seemed to have cracked the theorem in 1988: he apparently (but wrongly) showed that there was a link between Fermat's Last Theorem and a proven proposition in a field known as differential geometry...
...answer? The attempts of generations of scientists to find out have made Fermat's Last Theorem the El Dorado of math problems. Now, at long last, an assistant professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University seems to have broken the code. Last month at Bonn's Max Planck Institute, Yoichi Miyaoka, 38, sketched out his answer on a blackboard for fellow mathematicians...
...whole numbers, then C can also be a whole number -- for example, 5 2+12 2=13 2. Fermat postulated that if the same equation is taken to a power higher than 2, such as A 3+B 3=C 3, then C can never be a whole number. Miyaoka has apparently found out why by using an esoteric branch of mathematics called arithmetic geometry. Scientists are now awaiting the first draft of his manuscript. If it checks out, the Frenchman's infuriating puzzle will finally be solved...
...reconstruction."-Dr. Fong Foo Sec. retired Shanghai editor. ''The worst ... is over." - Herbert Schofield of Loughborough, England. "German unemployment has decreased 50% in 18 months."-Otto Fischer, Stuttgart banker. "Businessmen of Japan can hope for the economic recovery of their country and of the whole world."-Tsunejiro Miyaoka, Tokyo lawyer. "With the appearance of improvement in international trade, we are optimistic." -Donate Gaminara, Uruguayan engineer. "We in America are on the way out."- Clinton P. Anderson, State treasurer of New Mexico...
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