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AFAIK, not really, because most historians of mathematics consider it highly unlikely that Fermat's purported proof (if it existed at all) was correct. In fact,
by ameliaquining 6y ago
AFAIK, not really, because most historians of mathematics consider it highly unlikely that Fermat's purported proof (if it existed at all) was correct. In fact, in all likelihood it has been "rediscovered" many times by the hordes of people who put forth incorrect proofs during the three and a half centuries before Wiles finally cracked it.