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What Does it Take to Prove Fermat's Last Theorem? Grothendieck and the Logic of Number Theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 January 2014

Colin McLarty
Colin McLarty*
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Department of Philosophy, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA, E-mail: colin.mclarty@case.edu
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Abstract

This paper explores the set theoretic assumptions used in the current published proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, how these assumptions figure in the methods Wiles uses, and the currently known prospects for a proof using weaker assumptions.

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Bulletin of Symbolic Logic , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , September 2010 , pp. 359 - 377
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Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 2010

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