No one knows whether Pierre de Fermat really did have a proof of his famous conjecture that would justify it being called a theorem. However, he declared that he did in his copy of Diophantus' Arithmetica.

READ ON BY ACCESSING THIS FASCINATING PAPER IN PDF FORMAT HERE

Tony Thomas was born in England in 1939, and is a retired bureaucrat living in Brisbane, Australia. He has an Australian wife, two adult daughters, a dog and a cat. He holds a degree in economics from the University of Queensland. His interests are catholic, and include: writing fiction, poetry, and political diatribes to the newspapers. Other abiding interests include political and social philosophy, with occasional forays into logic and the foundations of mathematics. His politics are left wing anarchism but his activities are restricted to the pen rather than the sword. Tony is actually a well known poet and writer, though he modestly complains that on the contrary, he is not only obscure - but unknown, and should probably be described as such. On this website his prose pieces and poems attract a large and regular readership - so I reckon he is wrong for once