Re: Challenge for EUPHORIA Programmers
- Posted by munchr at mac.com Sep 15, 2001
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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.