Ancient Fermat's proof?

[juan avellaneda]

take a look at the University of Michigan Historical MATH cOLLECTION

Autor Michael Angelo McGinnis
Title Proof of Fermat's theorem

is right this proof or not??

[franznietzsche]

Do you have a link, or are we required to hunt this down on our own?

[juan avellaneda]

try this link

http://mathbooks.library.cornell.edu:8085/Dienst/UIMATH/2.0/Search

and search the refernce above

jp

[franznietzsche]

Thanks, but nothing came up. I just copy and pasted the author and title info. Are sure there are no typos in that info?

EDi: Nvm, the author is listed by M.A. instead of Michael Angelo, that was the problem. Anyway, now to read it and and see if i can actually answer your question.

[jcsd]

It's probably the proof of Fermat's little theorum or Fermat's 4n plus one theorum,not his last theorum.

[juan avellaneda]

i think he's talking about last theorem because he mentions the Wolfskehl prize
in the preface

jp

[Zurtex]

For those who did not find it in the search (you just had to put the title in) I think this is the one that is meant:

http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/b/broker20/broker20?verb=Display&protocol=CGM&ver=1.0&identifier=oai:lib.umich.edu:ABZ4168.0001.001

[jcsd]

Actually, they've got the first few pages in the archive and he is referring to Fermat's Last Theorum.