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Well, well, well, if Fermat could posit his theorems with mathematical texts whose origins predated the Arabs, this is like Liebnitz being able to mathematically discuss 'Motus" and 'Ponens' without reference to Sir Isaac Newton....hmmm...
1 posted on 11/18/2003 11:42:37 AM PST by .cnI redruM
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One such lemma is that the difference of the cubes of two rational numbers is equal to the sum of the cubes of two other rational numbers, i.e. given any numbers a, b then there exist numbers c, d such that a3 - b3 = c3 + d3.

If you put two lemmas together, do you get a dilemma?

2 posted on 11/18/2003 11:53:57 AM PST by talleyman (E=mc2 (before taxes))
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To: .cnI redruM
P.S. What do you get when you cross a mathemetician with a monk ?

A Dali lemma...

(couldn't help it.. it's a sickness...)
4 posted on 11/18/2003 11:57:27 AM PST by talleyman (E=mc2 (before taxes))
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To: .cnI redruM
....Liebnitz....

Do I detect the presence of a Larouchean?
6 posted on 11/18/2003 11:58:37 AM PST by bert (Don't Panic!)
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To: .cnI redruM

They still don’t know who the mother of Algebra is.


29 posted on 05/28/2013 4:41:32 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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Penalties abound, by no interest.


30 posted on 05/30/2013 2:01:36 PM PDT by RedHeeler
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... a number of the form 24n + 7 cannot be the sum of three squares.

This can be tightened up. A number of the form 8n + 7 cannot cannot be the sum of three squares.

31 posted on 05/30/2013 5:08:15 PM PDT by wideminded
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