Silverchase to Math [email protected]English • 1 day agoProof by fucking obviousnesssh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square62fedilinkarrow-up1327arrow-down113
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minus-squareKogasalinkfedilinkEnglish26•1 day agoIt’s not a 360 page proof, it just appears that many pages into the book. That’s the whole proof.
minus-square@angrystegolinkEnglish5•11 hours agoUpvoting because I trust you it’s funny, not because I understand.
minus-square@KlearlinkEnglish5•11 hours 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-square@angrystegolinkEnglish1•3 hours agoI thought it must be sonething like that, I expected it to be more specific though :)
It’s not a 360 page proof, it just appears that many pages into the book. That’s the whole proof.
Weak-ass proof. You could fit this into a margin.
Upvoting because I trust you it’s funny, not because I understand.
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 sonething like that, I expected it to be more specific though :)