The Fermat machine

DOI10.1080/0020739950260112MaRDI QIDQ4359936zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Homer W. Austin

Publication date 25 November 1997

Published in International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/0020739950260112

zbMATH Keywords

Fermat machineFermat's last theoremPythagorean triples

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Higher degree equations; Fermat's equation (11D41)

Review text

\textit{W. V. Quine} [Am. Math. Mon. 95, 636 (1988)] translated Fermat's Last Theorem into combinatorial form. This leads to what can be called a Fermat machine that can shed some light on Pythagorean triples.

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