Fermat's Last Theorem
Euler, in 1769 proposed that there are no sets of numbers such that
a^4 + b^4 + c^4 = d^4
or
a^5 + b^5 + c^5 + d^5 = e^5
The conjecture was disproved in 1966 by Lander and Parkin who found counterexample
for n=5:
27^5 + 84^5 + 110^5 + 133^5 = 144^5
Another counterexample was found by Noam Elkies in 1988:
2682440^4 + 15365639^4 + 18796760^4 = 20615673^4
Roger Frye who found the smallest possible n=4 solution
95800^4 + 217519^4 + 414560^4 = 422481^4
Try combinations for n > 5. No known solutions are found so far!
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