I was just browsing through the section of math books and I found this one book, which was all about one particular problem—Fermat's Last Theorem. This problem had been unsolved by ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Fermat's Last Theorem puzzled mathematicians for hundreds of years. Andrew Wiles was recently awarded one of math's biggest prizes for finding a solution.

In the 17th century the French mathematician Pierre de Fermat set a challenge for future generations of mathematicians—prove that there are no whole number solutions for the following closely ...