[meteorite-list] OT: Fermat's Last Theorem
From: Matson, Robert <ROBERT.D.MATSON_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:08:27 2004 Message-ID: <AF564D2B9D91D411B9FE00508BF1C86901B4E3A0_at_US-Torrance.mail.saic.com> This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C25F53.AA69CD20 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi Tom, You commented on Dave Harris's signature line: "I have a proof that x^n+y^n=z^n never has integer solutions for n>2. however, it won't fit into my signature file...." > I have been pondering this very question for over a decade! How > [weird ] that you came to the same conclusion! Would you share > your proof of this with me? I'm sure Dave meant this as a joke -- a modernized version of the notation that Fermat scribbled in a margin around 1630 regarding his last theorem. (Incidentally, it is unlikely that whatever Fermat came up with at that time was a bullet-proof proof.) Fermat's Last Theorem was actually finally proved in 1994 by British mathematician, Andrew Wiles. --Rob ------_=_NextPart_001_01C25F53.AA69CD20 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.3315.2870" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=204223520-18092002>Hi Tom,</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=204223520-18092002>You commented on Dave Harris's signature line:</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=204223520-18092002></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial>"I have a proof that x^n+y^n=z^n never has integer solutions for n>2.<BR>however, it won't fit into my signature file...."<BR><SPAN class=204223520-18092002> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial><SPAN class=204223520-18092002>> </SPAN>I have been pondering this very question for over a decade! How</FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT face=Arial><SPAN class=204223520-18092002>> [</SPAN>we<SPAN class=204223520-18092002>i</SPAN>rd<SPAN class=204223520-18092002> ]</SPAN> that you came to the same conclusion! Would you share<SPAN class=204223520-18092002> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT face=Arial><SPAN class=204223520-18092002>></SPAN> your proof of this with me?<SPAN class=204223520-18092002> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=204223520-18092002>I'm sure Dave meant this as a joke -- a modernized version of the</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=204223520-18092002>notation that Fermat scribbled in a margin around 1630 regarding</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=204223520-18092002>his last theorem. (Incidentally, it is unlikely that whatever Fermat</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=204223520-18092002>came up with at that time was a bullet-proof proof.)</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=204223520-18092002></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=204223520-18092002>Fermat's Last Theorem was actually finally proved in 1994 by</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=204223520-18092002>British mathematician, Andrew Wiles. --Rob</SPAN></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------_=_NextPart_001_01C25F53.AA69CD20-- Received on Wed 18 Sep 2002 04:40:46 PM PDT |
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