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The scientific world has been at first learned about the FLT after publication in 1670 of “Arithmetic” by Diophantus with Fermat’s remarks (see Pic. 3 and Pic. 96 from Appendix VI). And since then i.e. for three and a half centuries, science cannot cope with this task. Moreover, perhaps this is namely why the FLT became the object of unprecedented falsification in the history of mathematics. It is very easily to verify this since the main arguments of the FLT “proof” 1995 are well known and look as follows.

If the FLT were wrong, then there would be exist an elliptical “Frey curve” (???): y²=x(x−aⁿ)(x+bⁿ) where aⁿ+bⁿ=cⁿ. But Kenneth Ribet has proven that such a curve cannot be modular. Therefore, it suffices to obtain a proof of the Taniyama – Shimura conjecture, that all elliptic curves must be modular, so that it simultaneously becomes a proof of the FLT. The proof was presented in 1995 by Andrew Wiles who became the first scientist that allegedly has proven the FLT.

However, it turns out that the “Frey curve" and together with it the works of Ribet and Wiles have with the FLT nothing to do at all!!!44 And as regards the “proof” of A. Wiles the conjecture of Taniyama – Shimura, he also himself admitted45 that one needs much more to learn (naturally, from Wiles) in order to understand all of its nuances, setting forth on 130 pages (!!!) of scientific journal "Annals of Mathematics". Quite naturally that after the appearance of such exotic “proof”, scientists cannot come to their senses from such a mockery of science, the Internet is replete with all sorts of refutations,46 and there is no doubt that any generally accepted proof of the FLT still does not exist.

The special significance of the FLT is that in essence, this is one of the simple cases to addition of power numbers when only the sum of two squares can be a square and for higher powers such addition is impossible. However, according to the Waring-Hilbert theorem, any natural number (including an integer power) can be the sum of the same (or equal to a given) powers47. And this a much more complex and no less fundamental theorem was proven much earlier than the FLT.

We also note the fact that the FLT attracts special attention not at all because this task is simple in appearance, but very difficult to solve. There are also much simpler-looking tasks, which are not only not to be solved, but also even nobody really knows how to approach them 48. The FLT especially differs from other tasks that attempts to find its solution lead to the rapid growth of new ideas, which become impulses for the development of science. However, there was so much heaped up on this path that even in very voluminous studies, all this cannot be systematized and combined.49

Great scholars did not attach much importance to building the foundations of science apparently considering such creativity to be a purely formal matter, but centuries-old failures with the FLT proof indicate that they underestimated the significance of such studies. Now when it became clear where such an effective scientific tool as the descent method could come from, as well as other tools based on understanding the essence of number, it becomes clear why Fermat was so clearly superior to other mathematicians in arithmetic, while his opponents have long been in complete bewilderment from this obvious fact.

Here we come to the fact that the main reason for failures in the search for FLT proof lies in the difference between approaches to solving tasks by Fermat and other scientists, as well as in the fact that even modern science has not reached the knowledge that already was used by Fermat in those far times. This situation needs to be corrected because otherwise the FLT so will continue to discredit whole science.

One of the main questions in the studies on the FLT was the question of what method did Fermat use to prove this theorem? Opinions were very different and most often it was assumed that this was the method of descent, but then Fermat himself hardly called it "truly amazing proof." He also could not apply the Kummer method, from which the best result was obtained in proving the FLT proof over the last 170 years. But perhaps he besides the descent method had also other ones? Yes indeed, this is also described in detail in treatise "A New Discovery in the Art of Analysis" by Jacques de Billy [36]. There, he sets out in detail Fermat's methods, which allow him to find as many solutions as necessary in systems of two, three, or more equations. But here his predecessors Diophantus, Bachet and Viet at best found only one solution. After demonstrating Fermat's methods for solving the double equalities Billy also points to the most important conclusion, which follows from this: This kind of actions serves not only to solve double equalities, but also for any other equations.

Now it remains only to find out how to use the system of two equations to prove the FLT? Obviously, mathematicians simply did not pay attention to such an explicit clue from Fermat or did not understand its meaning. But for us this is not a problem because we can look into the cache and delve into the "heretical writings"! Based on what we have already been able to recover from Fermat’s works, we can now begin to uncover this greatest mystery of science, indicating also an effective method that allows us to solve the problem of FLT proof.

How it wouldn't be surprising, the essence of this method is quite simple. In the case when there are as many equations as there are unknowns in them, such a system is solved by ordinary substitutions. But if there is only one equation with several unknowns, then it can be very difficult to establish whether it can even have any solutions in integers. In this case, the numbers supposed as solutions can be expressed in the form of another equation called the “Key Formula” and then the result can be obtained by solving a system of two equations. Similar techniques when some numbers are expressed through others, have always been used by mathematicians, but the essence of the key formula is in another, it forms exactly that number, which reflects the essence of the problem and this greatly simplifies the way to solving the original equation. In such approaches and methods, based on an understanding the essence of numbers, in fact also lies the main superiority of Fermat over other scientists.50

To make it possible to follow the path that Fermat once laid, you need to find the starting element from the chain of events leading to the appearance of the FLT, otherwise there will be very little chance of success because everything else is already studied far and wide. And if we ask the question exactly this way, we will suddenly find that this very initial element was still in sight from 1670, but since then no one has paid any attention to it at all. However, in fact, we are talking about the very problem under number 8 from the book II of Arithmetic by Diophantus, to which also Fermat’s remark was written, became later a famous scientific problem. Everyone thought that this simple-looking problem has no difficulties for science and only Fermat had another opinion and worked for many years to solve it. As a result, he not only obtained it, but in addition to this he secured to his name unfading world fame.