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wodenokoto
on Dec 28, 2020
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“It Turns Out” (2010)
That is a great point. I watched a documentary on the person who finally solved the proof (twice!) and I don’t remember his name, but I do recognize Fermat’s theorem.
triplesec
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Indeed, that's Andrew Wiles, or now Sir Andrew Wiles KBE FRS Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Oxford. It's likely this was the documentary:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0074rxx/horizon-19951...
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