On 23 June 1993, at a conference at the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge, the British mathematician Andrew Wiles of Princeton University announced a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, the statement written by Pierre de Fermat in the margin of a book in about 1637 that no three positive whole numbers satisfy the equation a to the power n plus b to the power n equals c to the power n when n is more than 2. Wiles, who had read about the problem as a ten-year-old boy, had worked in secret for seven years. A gap found in review took a year, and with Richard Taylor he repaired it in September 1994. The proof was published in 1995.
Before and after
- 27 April 1993Founding of Central Bank of Armenia
- from 25 May 1993 to 31 December 2017Founding of International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
- from 1 June 1993 to 21 June 1995Dobrinja mortar attack
- from 15 June 1993 to 2 October 1996Operation Sharp Guard
- 23 June 1993Andrew Wiles proves Fermat's Last Theorem
- 26 June 1993Birth of Ariana Grande
- 12 July 1993Founding of International Organization of Turkic Culture
- 27 July 1993Creation of Windows NT 3.1
- 28 July 1993Birth of Harry Kane
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