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 <jferry@uiuc.edu> 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