Re: FLT an incurable, unending addiction


Chip Eastham wrote:
> fermat wrote:
> > Hello to all those here with a bright mind and a friendly nature. Your

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> As you may know, the terminology "first case" in connection with
> Fermat's Last Theorem has historically a specific meaning, i.e. the
> exponent is relatively prime to each term. or if we reduce to cases
> of odd prime exponent p, that none of x,y,z is divisible by p, yet:
>
> x^p + y^p = z^p
>
> Sophie Germain proved (*) the "first case" of FLT when p and 2p+1
> are both primes,

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Indeed. Len Adelman et.al. proved the first case true for infinitely
many
exponents via an extension of the S.G. criteria.

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