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World Service,23 Jun 2011,10 mins

Fermat's Last Theorem

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Solving Fermat's Last Theorem had intrigued mathematicians for centuries. In June 1993 a British academic, Andrew Wiles, thought he'd cracked it. But then someone pointed out a flaw in his calculations and it took him another year to correct it.

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