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{{Short description|Danish–Norwegian mathematician and cartographer}} | nationality = [[Denmark|Danish]]–[[Norway|Norwegian]] ...

...of more modern and advanced [[mathematics]] in the [[Denmark-Norway|Danish-Norwegian]] school system. had been known from the times of [[Diophantus]]. At the end of the 17th century it explained why the [[norm (mathematics)|norm]] of the product of two [[co ...

...ed to be impossible to prove using previous knowledge by almost all living mathematicians at the time.<ref name="Singh" />{{rp|203–205, 223, 226}} .../binfil/download.php?tid=67059|title=The Abel Prize 2016|date=2016|website=Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters|access-date=29 June 2017|archive-date=20 May ...

{{Short description|17th-century conjecture proved by Andrew Wiles in 1994}} ...wn as a [[conjecture]] rather than a theorem. After 358 years of effort by mathematicians, [[Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem|the first successful proof]] was ...

...enturies when a rigorous symbolic formalism was developed. In the mid-19th century, the scope of algebra broadened beyond a [[theory of equations]] to cover d ...[[polynomial equations]] in view of solving them. This changed in the 19th century{{efn|These changes were in part triggered by discoveries that solved many o ...