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To: Larry Lucido
I wonder how many “last theorems” begin with the phrase “Hold my beer and watch while I prove this.”

What Fermat wrote before he died...




22 posted on 03/16/2016 7:43:29 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

So if the proof takes 200 pages, then Fermat was making a joke that it doesn’t fit in a page margin?


30 posted on 03/16/2016 7:58:49 AM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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