And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything.
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I have found a very great number of exceedingly beautiful theorems.Pierre de Fermat
In the margin of his copy of Diophantus' Arithmetica, Fermat wrote To divide a cube into two other cubes, a fourth power or in general any power whatever into two powers of the same denomination above the second is impossible, and I have assuredly found an admirable proof of this, but the margin is too narrow to contain it.
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I am more exempt and more distant than any man in the world.
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But it is impossible to divide a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into fourth powers, or generally any power beyond the square into like powers; of this I have found a remarkable demonstration. This margin is too narrow to contain it.
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I will share all of this with you whenever you wish.
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