Fermat – Cantor's Archive
Cryptography
Could We Break RSA Encryption Without A Quantum Computer?
We discuss a range of integer factorization algorithms that can run on classical computers and explore their future in the face of Shor’s algorithm.
Fermat
Pierre de Fermat is Much More Than His Little and Last Theorem
A journey through Fermat’s pseudoprimes and Fermat numbers
Applied Mathematics
The One-Sentence Proof in Multiple Sentences
Fermat’s theorem on sums of two squares had famously been proven in just one single sentence.
Complex Analysis
What are Modular Forms?
The Strange Functions Used to Solve Fermat’s Last Theorem
Mathematics
Fermat’s Little Theorem
Understanding Pierre de Fermat’s observation about prime numbers