Why Was This Visual Proof Missed for 400 Years? - Fermat's Two Square Theorem

Why Was This Visual Proof Missed for 400 Years? - Fermat's Two Square Theorem

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Chapter 1: Discovering a theorem

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Chapter 1: Discovering a theorem

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Why Was This Visual Proof Missed for 400 Years? - Fermat's Two Square Theorem

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  1. 1 Intro
  2. 2 Chapter 1: Discovering a theorem
  3. 3 Chapter 2: 400 years worth of proofs
  4. 4 Chapter 3: Zagier's one-sentence proof
  5. 5 Chapter 4: The windmill trick
  6. 6 Chapter 5: Windmill maths interlude
  7. 7 Chapter 6: Uniqueness !!
  8. 8 Credits
  9. 9 . Later on I also present a proof that there is only one way to write 4k+1 primes as the sum of two squares of positive integers.

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