The Maths of Tango
In Mathematics, Tango on May 20, 2009 at 5:42 pmTurning a mathematical theorem and proof into a musical
How do you make a musical about a bunch of dead mathematicians and one very alive, very famous, Princeton math professor?
Andrew Wiles, the Eugene Higgins professor of math, gained worldwide fame for his 1993 solution to Fermat’s last theorem, which dates to 1637. The theorem states that for the equation xn+yn=zn there are no positive whole numbers that solve this when “n” is greater than 2.
French mathematician Pierre de Fermat had noted the theorem in the margin of a book and wrote that
