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To: paint_your_wagon
Completely misnamed. Fermat did not prove anything, and it is not his theorem. It was simply a conjecture; but Fermat made many conjectures, some of which were wildly wrong.

For example, Fermat conjectured that 22k+1 was prime for every positive integer k. The great Leonhard Euler blew up this conjecture in a few hours.

The correct name is Fermat's Last Conjecture, which has been Andrew Wiles Theorem since 1995.

41 posted on 10/12/2015 5:17:15 PM PDT by FredZarguna (A Kenyan appears to have infiltrated the lumberyard.)
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To: FredZarguna

And Stokes’ Theorem is really Lord Kelvin’s Theorem.


47 posted on 10/12/2015 5:32:17 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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