Identifier
F:fermat-last-theorem
Proof route
Not assigned
External status
proved
Axiom footprint
Empty

Recorded description

For every integer n greater than 2, there are no positive integers a, b, c with a^n + b^n = c^n.

Formal statement
(forall ((n Int) (a Int) (b Int) (c Int)) (=> (and (> n 2) (> a 0) (> b 0) (> c 0)) (not (= (+ (pow a n) (pow b n)) (pow c n)))))

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Evidence

Provenance

{
  "date": "2026-08-14",
  "established_by": "not established by axeyum",
  "source": "written to exercise external_status; the `facts-number` extraction lane reached this concept and correctly refused to record it, because before external_status every available status would have been false",
  "prior_art": [
    {
      "who": "Andrew Wiles",
      "what": "Modular elliptic curves and Fermat's Last Theorem",
      "where": "Annals of Mathematics 141 (3): 443-551",
      "year": 1995,
      "notes": "With Richard Taylor, 'Ring-theoretic properties of certain Hecke algebras', Annals of Mathematics 141 (3): 553-572, which repairs the gap in the original 1993 announcement."
    }
  ]
}