The Lost Math Lessons

As a high school math teacher, I often run across or develop math ideas that are not taught in a typical math curriculum. Here are some of those ideas.

Showing posts with label Fermat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fermat. Show all posts
Saturday, May 7, 2016

How to Find the Next Largest Known Prime

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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is offering a $150,000 cash prize “to the first individual or group who discovers a prime number w...

Proof for the Lucas-Lehmer Primality Test

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The Lucas-Lehmer primality test states that for the recursive sequence s 0 = 4 and s n = s n-1 2 – 2, and for all p > 2, s p-2 is di...
Monday, July 13, 2015

Fermat’s Last Theorem (n = 3 and n = 4)

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History After the French mathematician Pierre de Fermat died in the seventeenth century, a note written by Fermat was discovered in whi...
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Fermat’s Last Theorem (Proof for n = 4)

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There are no nonzero integer solutions to x 4 + y 4 = z 4 001 Assume x 4 + y 4 = z 4 , where x, y and z are nonz...
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