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What is the famous problem proposed by Fermat that was unsolved until 1994?
Fermat's Last Theorem
Four color theorem
Poincaré conjecture
Goldbach's conjecture
Answer
Fermat's Last Theorem, famously posed by Pierre de Fermat in the 17th century, states that no three positive integers a, b, and c can satisfy the equation an + bn = cn for any integer value of n greater than 2. This deceptively simple conjecture remained unproven for over 350 years, captivating the minds of mathematicians until its eventual resolution by Andrew Wiles in 1994.
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