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redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online In 1637, the French lawyer and part-time mathematician Pierre de Fermat put forward a simple and elegant numerical riddle that would puzzle and confound math geeks for 358 years. Known as Fermat’s Last Theorem, or simply Fermat’s conjecture, the theorem states no whole, positive numbers can make the equation xn + yn = zn true when ‘n’ is greater than 2. Scribbling haphazardly in the margin of an old Greek math book, Fermat...