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- From: yeomans@austin.onu.edu (Charles Yeomans)
- Subject: Re: Frankly,my dear......was: Fermat's Last Theorem
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- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 16:14:25 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan7.021308.10566@nuscc.nus.sg>, matmcinn@nuscc.nus.sg (.) writes:
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- > edgar@function.mps.ohio-state.edu (Gerald Edgar) writes:
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- > : * I thank those who were polite about it.
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- > : Mathematicians receive so many of these amateur attempts (with elementary
- > : mistakes in them) that they tend to get impatient with them...
- > :
- > I wonder if this might not be an occasion for some soul- searching on the
- > part of professional mathematicians. X^n+ y^n = Z^n has no solutions....
- > frankly, who cares? It's recreational mathematics, right? The only reason
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- Actually, the equation x^n + y^n = z^n does have solutions, for every n.
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- Charles Yeomans
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