Some ternary diophantine equations.

Professor Christopher Skinner
University of Michigan

I will recall how Galois theory entered into the proof Fermat's LastTheorem and then show how this can be 'tweaked' to apply to otherdiophantine equations such, as xⁿ + yⁿ = kz²for small values of k. This is joint work with M. Bennett (University ofIllinois).