Fermat’s Last Theorem

Fermat’s Last Theorem is the name of the statement in number theory that: if an integer is greater than , then the equation has no solutions in non-zero integers , , and .

The fact that the problem’s statement is understandable by schoolchildren makes it all the more frustrating, and it has probably generated more incorrect proofs than any other problem in the history of mathematics. No correct proof was found for 357 years, when a proof was finally published by Andrew Wiles in 1995.