Silverchase to Math [email protected]English • 4 months agoProof by fucking obviousnesssh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square70fedilinkarrow-up1390arrow-down114
arrow-up1376arrow-down1imageProof by fucking obviousnesssh.itjust.worksSilverchase to Math [email protected]English • 4 months agomessage-square70fedilink
minus-squareKogasalinkfedilinkEnglish30•4 months agoIt’s not a 360 page proof, it just appears that many pages into the book. That’s the whole proof.
minus-square@angrystegolinkEnglish8•4 months agoUpvoting because I trust you it’s funny, not because I understand.
minus-square@KlearlinkEnglish10•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-square@angrystegolinkEnglish3•edit-214 days agoI thought it must be something like that, I expected it to be more specific though :)
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•edit-215 days agolate to the party, but that’s actually one of the heartwarming and ridiculous at the same time stories of mathematics
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 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