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    What lawyer and mathematician came up with a theorem or puzzle that took other mathematicians over 300 years to solve? What was the name of the theory and who finally figured it out?

    Question #69306. Asked by teash. (Aug 04 06 5:18 PM)


    peasypod

    		This is Fermat's Last Theorem, and it was finally proven by Andrew Wiles in 1995.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_de_Fermat


    Aug 04 06, 5:21 PM

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