<P>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
<P> <B><I>Timothy Francis-Wright <twright@ziplink.net></I></B> wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Dorene FC wrote:<BR><BR>>One of the curious points about the Bogdanovs is that they seem to <BR>>be impervious to collegial correction, but consider the case of <BR>>Fermat's (?) last theorem scrawled in the margin of some book that, <BR>>excuse the lack of superscripts,<BR>> x to the nth + y to the nth = z to the nth <BR>> cannot be true for any value of N higher than 3<BR>>Can you think of anything less rigorous than a bare theorem scrawled<BR>>in a margin. Maybe in a hundred years (????) someone will prove all <BR>>their unproved assertions.<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><p><br><hr size=1>Do you Yahoo!?<br>
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