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Was Fermat's Last Theorem known for infinitely many primes before Wiles?
Before Andrew Wiles's 1997 proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, in 1985, Étienne Fouvry et al. proved that the first case of FLT holds for infinitely many primes $p$.
Is there any infinite class of primes ...
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