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Franz Lemmermeyer
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Please check my 6-line proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.

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How do we know that Fermat wrote his famous note in 1637?

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Pseudonyms of famous mathematicians

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What are the worst notations, in your opinion?

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What was the relative importance of FLT vs. higher reciprocity laws in Kummer's invention of algebraic number theory?

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Where is number theory used in the rest of mathematics?

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What's a mathematician to do?

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Euler's Master's Thesis

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Is there a "Basic Number Theory" for elliptic curves?

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Why is "abelian" infrequently capitalized?

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Demonstrating that rigour is important

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Did Euler prove theorems by example?

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what mistakes did the Italian algebraic geometers actually make?

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Zagier's one-sentence proof of a theorem of Fermat

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Why do we care whether a PID admits some crazy Euclidean norm?

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Fermat's proof for $x^3-y^2=2$

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Did Emmy Noether ever publish under a man's name?

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What is the "ray" in ray class group?

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What's the "best" proof of quadratic reciprocity?

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Why are matrices ubiquitous but hypermatrices rare?

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How was the importance of the zeta function discovered?

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Shortest/Most elegant proof for $L(1,\chi)\neq 0$

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Did Gauss know Dirichlet's class number formula in 1801?

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Definitive source about Dirichlet finally proving the Unit Theorem in the Sistine Chapel

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Integer points of an elliptic curve

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Major mathematical advances past age fifty

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How did Takagi prove Kronecker's Jugendtraum for Q(i)?

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Linear Algebra Texts?

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Why is "h" the notation for class numbers?

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For which $c$ is $\mathbb{Z}[\sqrt{c}]$ a unique factorization domain? a Euclidean domain?

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