An amusing observation, which people often argued about 
on USENET news back 
in the 1990s, is that Fermat's last theorem 
is false in 
. For example, 
 has a nontrivial solution, namely 
, 
, and 
.   Here 
 is a cube
root of 
 in 
.  Note that it takes some work to prove that there
is a cube root of 
 in 
 (see Exercise 56).
William Stein
2004-05-06