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** A problem that might be substituted for Fermat's Last Theorem if reusing this plot would be to ask for [[wikipedia:Ramsey number#Ramsey numbers|Ramsey numbers]]. Extra bonus for them being associated with an [[Alien Invasion]] anecdote.
* [[Arthur C. Clarke]]'s ''The Last Theorem'' is about a Sri Lanka mathematician trying to find a simpler proof to the problem.
* One of the fictional dialogues in ''[[Gödel, Escher, Bach]]'' talks about a kind of ant colonies that never wrote down the proof to a variant of Fermat's Last Theorem (the variant is n^<sup>x</sup> + n^<sup>y</sup> = n^<sup>z</sup>, with the same conditions: n=2 has infinitely many solutions and n>2 has none<ref>It is in fact much easier to prove; try to prove it by yourself if you want to</ref>) because it is so small that it would be invisible if written in the margin.
* In [[The Millennium Trilogy]], Lisbeth spends most of the second book puzzling over the Theorem. At the end of the book, she [[Eureka Moment|understands what he meant]], but after the ending of the book, forgets it.
 
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