WONDER #2807: What Is Fermat's Last Theorem?

Question 1 of 3

What is the name of the person who proved Fermat’s Last Theorem?

  1. Leonhard Euler
  2. Andrew Wiles
  3. Diophantus
  4. Sophie Germain

Question 2 of 3

Fermat’s Last Theorem was written down by Pierre de Fermat in the margin of which book?

  1. Protogaea by Gottfried Leibniz
  2. Principia Mathematica by Isaac Newton
  3. Disquisitiones Arithmeticae by Carl F. Gauss
  4. Arithmetica by Diophantus

Question 3 of 3

A mathematical proof is . . .

  1. a set numbers that can not be represented as decimals
  2. a statement that shows a particular math concept is true
  3. the point towards which a series or function converges
  4. a number system that extends complex numbers to four dimensions

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