Re: Challenge for EUPHORIA Programmers
- Posted by munchr at mac.com Sep 14, 2001
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At 12:13 PM 9/14/2001 -0500, Kat wrote: >On 14 Sep 2001, at 6:59, Dan Moyer wrote: > > > > > I was wondering if anyone got David's joke, thought Kat would spot it. :) > >Kat spotted it! I got a good laugh from it too, but i did figure most >would, and >there would be a flood of replies, so i restrained myself. I have not been >following The Fermat's Last Theorem Solution Quest, since so many have >publicly bombed out with it the last decade, has it been found yet? > >Kat Yes, Andrew Wiles has published a proof of Fermats Last Theorem using the Taniyama-Shimura conjecture. It was published in the May 1995 issue of "Annals of Mathematics". Details of his search for the proof, and previous searches are covered in Simon Singe's book "Fermat's Last Theorem" ISBN 1 85702 669 1, at http://www.simonsingh.com/fermat.htm. Also see http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/proof/wiles.html for NOVA's interview with Andrew Wiles. James Powell