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- From: ejs16@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Eric Jaron Stieglitz)
- Subject: Re: SANDMAN:Lucien's Library
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.162650.18864@news.columbia.edu>
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- Reply-To: ejs16@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Eric Jaron Stieglitz)
- Organization: Me, Myself, and I
- References: <151FwB9w165w@Micor.OCUnix.on.ca> <1992Dec31.001958.2356@lokkur.dexter.mi.us> <1992Dec31.042645.7577@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 16:26:50 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec31.042645.7577@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> conty@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (E. Kontei) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec31.001958.2356@lokkur.dexter.mi.us>, scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us (Steve Simmons) writes:
- >> OK, since two different folks [in rec.arts.comics.misc] have asked about
- >> Fermat's Last Theorem, it's time to tell this told-to-me-as-true story:
- >
- >But you didn't explain what the theorem was:
- > Fermat was an 18th Century French mathematician who had the
- > tendency to write annotations at the margins of the books he
- > read. Well, in one of his annotations, Fermat claimed that he
- > had discovered a "remarkable proof" that there do not exist
- > three numbers x, y, and z such that x^3 + y^3 = z^3.
- > The problem is, he never wrote down what the blasted
- > "remarkable proof" was, and mathematicians are still trying
- > to solve that 200-year-old conundrum. (There is a theory
- > which says that Fermat *didnt* discover a proof, he just
- > though he had. Then again, no one has been able to come with
- > three numbers that fit the bill, so the problem is still open.)
-
- Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that someone is offering a
- $100,000 reward to the first guy who solves this.
-
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- Eric Jaron Stieglitz aka ejs16@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu
- "With great power comes great responsibility"
- We have been given the power of free speech.
- Let's make sure that we use it wisely...
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