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Fermat's Last Theorem
Solving Fermat's Last Theorem had intrigued mathematicians for centuries.
In June 1993 a British academic, Andrew Wiles, thought he'd cracked it. But then someone pointed out a flaw in his calculations and it took him another year to correct it.
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