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elromulous 35 minutes ago [-]
(disclaimer: I haven't watched this yet)
Mathematicians / folks knowledgeable on the subject - do you think Fermat had an error in his (lost) proof? Or that there exists a solution that perhaps is more straightforward than Wiles's?
My understanding is that Wiles had to use a ton of math (and invent some new math?) that had not yet been invented in Fermat's time.
jerkstate 7 minutes ago [-]
I don't know that much about math but I've read that one possibility is he had found a valid proof for n=4 and assumed that it generalized. Hopefully someone else who knows more about the subject chimes in!
BinRoo 3 days ago [-]
Aside: the AI summary of this attributes the wrong person. This is Andrew Wiles.
OJFord 45 minutes ago [-]
Do you mean Atish Joygobin, for the background music?
kurthr 2 hours ago [-]
Who solved FLT.
alex1138 1 hours ago [-]
I've only skimmed it but Simon Singh's book on it seems reasonably accessible to non-experts
One interesting thing of FLT is Wiles is on record as saying it opened the door (I think. This is from memory) to Langlands Program, a series of mathematical connections
Harder problems of course exist, Riemann Hypothesis et al but FLT still took hundreds of years to solve
hingler36 1 hours ago [-]
I read Singh's book a few years ago, I really enjoyed it and left with a basic understanding of the underlying math
QuesnayJr 1 hours ago [-]
You remember correctly. His result is a special case of Langlands.
pseudohadamard 1 days ago [-]
Just to check, this video isn't NSFW is it?
convolutedsoup 1 hours ago [-]
This comment left me so bewildered that I wanted to create a hackernews account just to comment this.
esafak 49 minutes ago [-]
It might be a joke in reference to the video's title, "I loved every minute of it, however hard it had been".
jackdoe 1 days ago [-]
depends, I would say it is not safe for work as it makes you question what are you doing there :)
Mathematicians / folks knowledgeable on the subject - do you think Fermat had an error in his (lost) proof? Or that there exists a solution that perhaps is more straightforward than Wiles's?
My understanding is that Wiles had to use a ton of math (and invent some new math?) that had not yet been invented in Fermat's time.
One interesting thing of FLT is Wiles is on record as saying it opened the door (I think. This is from memory) to Langlands Program, a series of mathematical connections
Harder problems of course exist, Riemann Hypothesis et al but FLT still took hundreds of years to solve
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