- Taro Morishima
was a Japanese
mathematician specializing inalgebra who attendedTokyo University inJapan . Morishima published at least thirteen papers, including his work onFermat's Last Theorem . [cite journal
quotes=yes
last=Morishima
first=Taro
year=1952
month=January
title=On Fermat's Last Theorem (Thirteenth Paper)
journal=Transactions of the American Mathematical Society|volume=72
issue=1
pages=67–81
doi=10.2307/1990655
url=http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-9947(195201)72%3A1%3C67%3AOFLT(P%3E2.0.CO%3B2-C
accessdate=2006-11-28] and a collected works volume published in 1990 after his death [cite book
last =Morishima
first =Taro
coauthors =Y Karamatsu
title =Collected papers of Taro Morishima
publisher =Queens University
date =1990
location =Kingston, Ontario, Canada] . He also corresponded several times with American mathematician H. S. Vandiver. [cite web|url=http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utcah/00303/cah-00303.html|title=A Guide to the H. S. Vandiver Papers, 1889-1977|publisher=The Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin|accessdate=2006-11-28]Morishima's Theorem on FLT
:Let m be a prime number not exceeding 31. Let "p" be prime, and let "x", "y", "z" be
integer s such that "x""p" + "y""p" + "z""p" = 0. Assume that "p" does not divide the product "xyz". Then, "p"² must divide m"p" − 1-1.References
External links
* [http://www.campusbookstore.com/index.cfm?index=GENERALBOOKS/WBSDETAILS&isbn=QPPAM84&group=QPPAM Collected papers at Queen's University]
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