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Re: Challenge for EUPHORIA Programmers

• Posted by munchr at mac.com Sep 15, 2001
• 569 views

At 10:35 PM 9/14/2001 -0500, Kat wrote:
>On 14 Sep 2001, at 18:58, munchr at mac.com wrote:
> > 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.
>
>But Wiles was disproven after the NOVA show aired.
>
>Kat

He found a problem in his original proof, and was able to repair it within 
a year or two.  Simon
Singe's book covers the whole sordid mess from start to final, academically 
accepted proof.
It makes for a pretty good read, for a mathematics book.