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“Asking NASA to develop low cost space access is analogous to asking Amtrak to develop new low cost locomotives or the US Postal Service to develop new low cost electronic mail systems.” — Andrew Beal

Beal Aerospace (R.I.P., a well done)
various | 1997 through present | various
Posted on 02/07/2007 10:36:32 PM PST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1781167/posts

NASA Seeks Ideas On Building Spaceships For A New Century
spacedaily.com | 10/01/04 | Frank Sietzen
Posted on 10/01/2004 7:32:48 PM PDT by KevinDavis
5 posted on 10/01/2004 9:50:40 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1233205/posts?page=5#5
6 posted on 10/01/2004 9:53:52 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1233205/posts?page=6#6
7 posted on 10/01/2004 9:56:04 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1233205/posts?page=7#7

The Universal Reusable First Stage: The Next ‘Stage’ In Space Transport
Spacedaily | 3/31/03 | Kenneth Schweitzer
Posted on 03/31/2003 7:43:03 PM PST by Brett66
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/881409/posts

Relations between Colombia and Venezuela tense after Colombia failed to condemn coup attempt
yahoo.com | Wed Apr 17, 2002 7:19 AM ET | SUSANNAH A. NESMITH, AP
Posted on 04/17/2002 5:04:16 AM PDT by Cincinatus’ Wife
4 posted on 04/17/2002 6:37:19 AM PDT by Cincinatus’ Wife
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/667555/posts?page=4#4

[SunkenCiv]

Nothing really to do with String Theory per se, but frankly I was surprised it hadn't appeared anywhere on FR.

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[kindred]

Wonderful.
But, what does the answer mean?

[50mm]

Should be A^x + B^y = C^z

[opticks]

nice to see something like this posted here.

[GeronL]

um.... huh?

[SunkenCiv]

Beal’s Conjecture Disproved
James Constant
Beal’s Conjecture is disproved for the same reasons Fermat’s Last Theorem is proved.
[I’m not too bright, but it appears to me that JC doesn’t understand the Beal Conjecture]
http://www.coolissues.com/mathematics/Beal/beal.htm

Last-Digit Terminations and the Beal Conjecture: An Explanation
by Charles William Johnson
http://www.earthmatrix.com/beal/conjecture.htm

Beal’s Conjecture: A Search for Counterexamples
http://norvig.com/beal.html

[SunkenCiv]

The conjecture is not valid over the larger domain of Gaussian integers. After a prize of $50 was offered for a counterexample, Fred W. Helenius provided (-2 + i)³ + (-2 - i)³ = (1 + i)⁴. *

[SunkenCiv]

Okay, now, for something comp-, well, you know...

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[LibWhacker]

I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, because I could easily lay down a multitude of such propositions, which one could neither prove nor dispose of. --Karl Friedrich Gauss(1777-1855)

As could almost anyone who put their mind to it. Beal's conjecture definitely falls into that category for me. A complete waste of time. Beal is not even a mathematician, just a billionaire math enthusiast who's come up with his little conjecture and thrown $100,000 at it to reel in some poor fish. It hurts mathematics more than helps it, imo, as it will undoubtedly divert mathematicians from more important work.

C'mon, Andy, you're a bazillionaire, for crying out loud. What is the solution to you? Why are you interested? Does it make you feel smart and important because you came up with a problem that mathematicians can't solve? Even though a monkey could do the same thing? Listen, it could take an entire lifetime to prove or disprove your conjecture. Make it worth our while, say $10,000,000? Even ten million dollars for all the lives wasted isn't much!