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  1. Fermat's Last Theorem -- Problems
    The solution of Fermat's Last Theorem is the most important mathematical development of the 20th century. In 1963 a schoolboy browsing in his local library stumbled across the world's greatest mathematical problem: Fermat's Last Theorem, a puzzle that every child can understand but which has baffled mathematicians for over 300 years. Aged just ten, Andrew Wiles dreamed that he would crack it. Wiles's lifelong obsession with a seemingly simple challenge set by a long-dead Frenchman is an emotional tale of sacrifice and extraordinary determination. In the end, Wiles was forced to work in secrecy and isolation for seven years, harnessing all the power of modern maths to achieve his childhood dream. Many before him had tried and failed, including an 18th-century philanderer who was killed in a duel. An 18th-century Frenchwoman made a major breakthrough in solving the riddle, but she had to attend maths lectures at the Ecole Polytechnique disguised as a man since women were forbidden entry to the school.
  2. Twin Prime Conjecture
    One way to approach the twin prime problem is to look at the gaps between successive primes. For example, if p(1), p(2), p(3), . . . denotes the sequence of all primes, are there infinitely many values of n for which p(n + 1) – p(n) is less than 10, say, or less than 100? If you can find a gap for which there are infinitely many pairs of successive primes that differ by no more than that gap, maybe you can start to bring the gap down. If you get the gap down to 2, you will have proved the twin prime conjecture.
  3. Jackie Clune -- East London
    Singer, comedian, actress, writer and broadcaster, Jackie Clune, 39, lives in East London with her partner Richard, their daughter Saoirse, and their triplets, Thady, Frank, and Orla-who play a starring role in Extreme Motherhood: The Triplet Diaries. Jackie is currently touring in the hit ABBA musical Mamma Mia.
  4. Anne of Austria -- Louis Xiv
    That was the supernatural reasoning, one that the pious Anne clearly accepted, given the respect paid to Brother Fiacre. A more down-to-earth explanation was provided by a story involving Louis XIII, a hunting expedition near Paris cut short by an unexpected storm, and given that the King's separate apartments at the Louvre were not prepared, the need to take refuge in those of his wife on the night of 5 December 1637. . . The result of this unscheduled propinquity was Louis, born exactly nine months later. Unfortunately the Gazette de France, the official source of royal movements on any given day, does not confirm joint occupation of the Louvre on that particular night (although it is true that Anne was there). The King and Queen were ... together at their palace of Saint-Germain from 9 November for six weeks. The couple moved to the Louvre on 1 December, after which the King went hunting at Crône, and by 5 December was at his hunting lodge of Versailles.
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