Editing Fermat's Last Theorem

'''{{PAGENAME}}''' was a mathematical theorem whose proof [[Eleventh Doctor|the Doctor]] once used to convince a body of geniuses that they should take his advice about how to save the world from annihilation by the [[Atraxi]].  He uploaded the proof — which the Doctor called "the real one, never been seen before" — to a secure video conference from a laptop computer in [[Leadworth]].   Simultaneously, he noted that the originator of the theorem, Fermat, got killed in a duel before he could write down the proof.  He claimed responsibility for the death, saying that it had only happened because he had slept in that morning.
::'''The reference here is to [[wikipedia:Fermat's Last Theorem|Fermat's Last Theorem]], but many details in the Doctor's speech do not conform to known events in the real world.  The theorem was actually proved in the [[1990s]], but the Doctor's clarification that he was sending "the ''real'' one" may be an allusion to this [[20th century]] solution.  Also, Fermat himself was not killed in a duel.  Instead, the reference to a duel seems to be a reference to [[wikipedia:Everiste Galois|Everiste Galois]], a [[19th century]] mathematician whose work on the proof was fundamental to the [[1990s]] proof.  
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