Quanta Magazine April 6, 2020
An international team of researchers (USA- Princeton, UK) came up with proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem tackling the theorem indirectly by means of an enormous bridge that mathematicians had conjectured should exist between two distant continents in the mathematical world. The proof boiled down to establishing this bridge between just two little plots of land on the two continents. The full bridge would offer mathematicians the hope of illuminating vast swaths of mathematics by passing concepts back and forth across it. Many problems, including Fermat’s Last Theorem, seem difficult on one side of the bridge, only to transform into easier problems when shifted to the other side…read more.
Daniel Castro Maia for Quanta Magazine