Bearing in mind, of course, that this only holds for the case n>2, & x,y,z not equal to 0.



He is holding Diophantus' Arithmetica, for those who didn't guess.

Fermat never had a chance.  The problem was finally solved in 1994.  I was disappointed that I ran out of memory running my (admittedly poorly coded) Matlab algorithm that finds fake solutions to the problem, getting the fake z within 1 of the real z.  If you want to know a bit more about mathematics, check out Eric Weisstein's Mathworld for a good time.

 

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