From: ksbrown@seanet.com (Kevin Brown) Subject: Re: FLT, Case I, p=5, simple proof by JSH Date: Sat, 03 Jul 1999 18:56:26 GMT Newsgroups: sci.math.research To: sci-math-research@moderators.uu.net Keywords: simple approach to Fermat's Last Theorem, case I, some primes On Fri, 02 Jul 1999 Jim Ferry wrote: >Who first used this approach? If James has discovered >something new under the sun, he has a nice note for the >Monthly. This is an old approach, which amounts to just checking to see if x^p + y^p = z^p has any solutions modulo p^2 if none of x,y,z is divisible by p. It doesn't for p=3,5,11, etc. You can read about this on the web at http://www.seanet.com/~ksbrown/kmath367.htm