Silverchase@sh.itjust.works to Math Memes@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish · 4 months agoProof by fucking obviousnesssh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square70fedilinkarrow-up1386arrow-down114
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minus-squareKlear@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·4 months agoIt’s a reference to Fermat’s Last Theorem. Tl;dr is that a legendary mathematician wrote in a margin of a book that he’s got a proof of a particular proposition, but that the proof is too long to fit into said margin. That was around the year 1637. A proof was finally found in 1994.
minus-squareangrystego@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-22 days agoI thought it must be something like that, I expected it to be more specific though :)
minus-squarezaknenou@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-24 days agolate to the party, but that’s actually one of the heartwarming and ridiculous at the same time stories of mathematics
It’s a reference to Fermat’s Last Theorem.
Tl;dr is that a legendary mathematician wrote in a margin of a book that he’s got a proof of a particular proposition, but that the proof is too long to fit into said margin. That was around the year 1637. A proof was finally found in 1994.
I thought it must be something like that, I expected it to be more specific though :)
late to the party, but that’s actually one of the heartwarming and ridiculous at the same time stories of mathematics