KLYAGIN, N.V. PHYLOSOPHY AND THE “PROBLEM OF FERMA”

Abstract: Among the mathematicians of the past, there have been the legend that the great mathematician P. Fermat had created the formula of a simple number, but did not inform his colleagues of this formula. As the author of this article points out, the reason for this complication had to do not only with the difficulty in the problem itself, but also in the philosophical approach to it…