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

Either Fermat had a much more elegant proof - or he was yanking posterity's chain.

49 posted on 03/16/2016 9:36:34 AM PDT by ConservingFreedom (Trump fans:'he's no more conservative than Mitt'-www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3389209/posts)
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To: ConservingFreedom

“Fermat didn’t have this proof. This is a twentieth century proof.” —Andrew Wiles


50 posted on 03/19/2016 9:54:00 AM PDT by onedoug
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