Template:Today in Math History for August 4

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August 4, 1753 In a letter to Christian Goldbach, Leonhard Euler announces he's applied Fermat's "method of infinite descent" to prove $x^{3}+y^{3}=z^{3}$ has no solution in integers. (See Fermat's last theorem.)
August 4, 1805 William Rowan Hamilton is born in Dublin.
August 4, 1914 Gaston Julia receives orders to the 57th Infantry Regiment at Liborne.

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