Posted on 03/16/2016 7:26:38 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
22 years? Talk about being slow to cough up the money.
Awesome! Congratulations. I remember hearing about that in school.
Is there any practical applications for this theorem?
(1)³ + (-1)³ = (0)³.
I saw a tv program about this once, and while it was above my level, it was very interesting.
Ah, heck, he beat me to it.
I had my own proof almost completed. I was just trying to decide whether to start my last line with “Therefore...” or with “In conclusion...”.
I forgot that old saying: It doesn’t matter who discovers first. What matters is who publishes first.
Unfortunately, -1 is not a positive integer.
#solvedtheoremsmatter
I wonder how many “last theorems” begin with the phrase “Hold my beer and watch while I prove this.”
Did the article at the source express the equation like that? Or did it show it like the equation shown in the image? Reading the theorem as it was expressed in the excerpt my first thought was "how ridiculous; any solution where z=x+y would satisfy that equation."
It is clear that FORMAT is important in FERMAT's equation.
Yeah, but he didn’t say x, y, and z had to be positive in what he wrote on the blackboard.
-1 is not a positive integer.
I figured out long ago that I was never going to prove or disprove that thermo.
x, y and z all have to be positive integers.
“Ah, heck, he beat me to it.”
Don’t worry. There is plenty yet to do. I just got a new book for my birthday....
“Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics” by John Derbyshire.
I love mathematics, but I’m NOT very good at it. I’m still trying to understand the difference between Irrational and Transcendental numbers....sigh
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