In defense of Fermat

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Sun Nov 17 21:31:59 PST 2002


Fermat's last theorem might have been false, but what it stated was precise and well-defined; one knew exactly what he claimed to have a proof for. I haven't read anything more about the B's whan what has appeared here, but this doesn't seem to be true of their work. jks

Timothy Francis-Wright <twright at ziplink.net> wrote:Dorene FC wrote:


>One of the curious points about the Bogdanovs is that they seem to
>be impervious to collegial correction, but consider the case of
>Fermat's (?) last theorem scrawled in the margin of some book that,
>excuse the lack of superscripts,
> x to the nth + y to the nth = z to the nth
> cannot be true for any value of N higher than 3
>Can you think of anything less rigorous than a bare theorem scrawled
>in a margin. Maybe in a hundred years (????) someone will prove all
>their unproved assertions.

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