Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site psuvax1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!psuvax1!parker From: parker@psuvax1.UUCP (Bruce Parker) Newsgroups: net.math Subject: Re: Fermat's Last Theorem Message-ID: <1598@psuvax1.UUCP> Date: Thu, 3-Jan-85 21:44:16 EST Article-I.D.: psuvax1.1598 Posted: Thu Jan 3 21:44:16 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 5-Jan-85 01:46:33 EST References: <1622@sdcrdcf.UUCP> Organization: Pennsylvania State Univ. Lines: 25 The abstract reads in full: 816-11-188 CHIEN WENJEN, 4297 Candleberry Avenue, Seal Beach, CA 90740. "Fermat's Last Theorem". Preliminary Report The missing proof of Fermat's Last Theorem has been rediscovered. The proof is elementary, zigzag, and truly wonderful as claimed by Fermat nearly three and a half centuries ago. The relation p p p x + y = z for any prime p > 2 is called Case I if none of the solution integers x, y, z is divisible by p and Case II if one of the integers is divisible by p. In this article, unlike the classical work, we show first the nonexistence of Case II and the the impossibility of Case I. [Harold M. Edwards, "Fermat's Last Theorem - A Genetic Introduction to Algebraic Number Theory," or L. J. Mordell, "Three Lectures on Fermat's Last Theorem," and "13 Lectures on Fermat's Last Theorem" by Paulo Ribenboim.] It's to be presented as part of the AMS annual meeting 9-13 Jan 85. -- Bruce Parker Computer Science Department (814) 863-1545 334 Whitmore Lab {allegra|ihnp4}!psuvax1!parker The Pennsylvania State University parker@penn-state (csnet) University Park, Pennsylvania 16802 parker@psuvax1 (bitnet)