L'INCROYABLE HISTOIRE DE LA CONJECTURE DE FERMAT CMH#14

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For once, I'm doing something different: in this video, you'll discover not the fate of a person, but of an idea! More precisely, an unproven mathematical theory. A CONJECTURE, as they say. And not just any conjecture, but Fermat's Last Theorem, which is regularly cited as the most important enigma in the history of mathematics.
Fermat, Euler, Germain... many others have tried and failed to solve this conjecture... until... until... well, until you see the end of the video!

This video took me (again) quite a bit of time and research, so thank you for your ever-growing support. Please know that I am truly grateful.

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► SOURCES
• My main source for this video is the excellent book: "Fermat's Last Theorem" by Simon Singh, published by Lattès and Hachette Littératures. This book is full of examples and anecdotes that I couldn't include in my video due to space or time constraints. I highly recommend reading it if you enjoyed the video.

Furthermore, I also consulted the following links:

• https://www.maths-et-tiques.fr/index.....

• https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dernier...

• https://www.echosciences-sud.fr/commu...

• https://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/artic...

• https://www.bibmath.net/dico/index.ph...

• http://serge.mehl.free.fr/chrono/wile...

►ERRATUM
• The video states that Ribet's work, proving that Fermat's theory derives from Taniyama-Shimura dates from the 1960s. This is an error. Ribet's article dates from 1986;

• At 3:00, when I say that the infinite number of right triangles implies an infinite number of integer triplets: This reasoning is flawed. The infinity of right triangles does indeed imply an infinite number of triplets, okay... but not necessarily integers.
• Sophie Germain only proved PART of Germain's conjecture for prime numbers.

• At 11:23, there is an anachronism in the illustrations. "At the beginning of the 20th century." The construction of the Eiffel Tower was completed in 1889.
• When I say "He begins his presentation by...", this is incorrect. The verb "débuter" is intransitive; I should have said "he begins his intervention by..."

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