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?

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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, 6:21 PM

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