damninteresting.com — This story is about the quest to prove this 350 year old mathematical riddle. Fermat's Last Theorem, a mathematical cousin to the Pythagorean Theorem, was finally solved by Andrew Wiles in 1993 with newly discovered math. I have a truly marvelous proof of this proposition, but this digg description box is too small to contain. Can you prove it?
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squigglypSep 23, 2007
you know, there was a mathematician who went mad and died in an asylum because he tried to figure out exactly what infinity was, and he theorized that infinity was actually measurable, and that there were an infinite number of infinities.
dopplerdogSep 23, 2007
Uh, you don't need to use floating point at all.
dylan47Sep 23, 2007
But i am a douche.
Closed AccountSep 23, 2007
First, the graph would have to be infinitely large, so no, even if you could construct this infinite graph, it would not "be obvious if it doesn't cross any of them". You can't visually inspect an infinite number of points (with infinite precision, no less).And then you'd have to do it for all n greater than 3.
Closed AccountSep 23, 2007
Given he solved a famous open problem that stood unsolved for over 300 years, I think you can be more general and remove 'living' from that sentence.
kevenmSep 23, 2007
The Code Book was my favourite of his. I'd love to attend one of this guy's public talks, but so far, nothing scheduled for Canada.