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Over three hundred years ago, a French scholar scribbled a simple theorem in the margin of a book. It would become the world's most baffling mathematical mystery. Simple, elegant, and utterly impossible to prove, Fermat's Last Theorem captured the imaginations of amateur and professional... read more

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Just before dawn on June 23, 1993, Professor John Conway approached the darkened mathematics building on the Princeton University campus.

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  1. Amir D. Aczel

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