Timeline for Individual mathematical objects whose study amounts to a (sub)discipline?
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| Dec 12, 2010 at 6:37 | comment | added | Adam Hughes | +1 because I remember my early days in algebraic number theory when we were told how much of the machinery for modern algebraic number theory came out of a desire to solve Fermat's last theorem. | |
| Dec 12, 2010 at 2:52 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Kim Morrison | ||
| Dec 12, 2010 at 0:22 | comment | added | David Feldman | Associated to these equations one has Fermat curves, which receive a certain amount of attention. But the real excitement has been over the set of rational points on these curves, and that turns out not such a rich object (for $n>2$). I do have a Platonic versus formalist bias here - by object I think I generally don't mean "an equation," but rather perhaps "the set of solutions" that equation. And then, I'm looking for existential, not merely logical, richness. But perhaps you see this a different way? | |
| Dec 11, 2010 at 23:44 | history | answered | J.C. Ottem | CC BY-SA 2.5 |