1832 On May 29th, French youth Galois decided to duel with another man for so-called "love and honor". He knows that his opponent's marksmanship is very good, there is little hope of winning, and he may die. He asked himself, how did he spend last night? Before that, he had written two mathematical papers, but both of them were contemptuously rejected by the authorities: one was by Cauchy, a great mathematician; On another occasion, what was in his mind was considered valuable by the sacred French Academy of Sciences. All night, he was in a hurry to write his last words in Science in a fleeting time. Before he died, he wrote as fast as possible, trying to write the great things in his rich thoughts. He interrupted from time to time, wrote "I don't have time, I don't have time" in the margin, and then went on to write an extremely scribbled outline.

What he wrote in the last few hours before dawn once and for all found the real answer to a problem that has puzzled mathematicians for centuries, and created an extremely important branch of mathematics-group theory.

The next morning, in a duel, he was punched through the intestines. Before he died, he said to his brother who was crying beside him, "Don't cry, I need enough courage to die at the age of 20." He was buried in the ordinary trench of the cemetery, so today his grave is nowhere to be found. His immortal monument is his work, which consists of two rejected papers and a scribbled manuscript he wrote on the sleepless night before his death.

The Mathematician's Problem Fermat was a member of Toulouse Parliament in the17th century, an honest and diligent man, and the most outstanding amateur in mathematics in history. He left many wonderful theorems to future generations in his life. At the same time, due to temporary negligence, it also posed a severe challenge to later mathematicians.

Fermat has a habit. When he reads, he likes to keep his thoughts short. Once, when he was reading, he wrote the following words: "... it is impossible to divide a power higher than twice into two powers of the same number." I'm sure I've found a wonderful proof, but the space here is too small to write down. " This theorem is now named Fermat's last theorem. That is, it is impossible to satisfy Xn+Yn = Zn. This is Fermat's challenge to future generations. In order to find the proof of this theorem, countless mathematicians in later generations launched a charge again and again, but they were all defeated. 1908, a German rich man once gave out a huge sum of 65438+ million marks to reward the first person who completely proved Fermat's last theorem. Since this theorem was put forward,

Mathematically, "Fermat's Last Theorem" has become a mountain higher than Mount Everest, and human mathematical wisdom has only reached this height once, and has never reached it since.