Abstract
Using the modular ring Z4, simple algebra is used to study diophantine equations of the form (x 3 − a = y 2). Fermat challenged his contemporaries to solve this equation when a = 2. They were unable to do so, although Fermat had devised a rather complicated proof himself.
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