• @Klear
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    154 months ago

    Weak-ass proof. You could fit this into a margin.

    • @angrystego
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      84 months ago

      Upvoting because I trust you it’s funny, not because I understand.

      • @Klear
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        104 months ago

        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.

        • @angrystego
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          13 days ago

          I thought it must be something like that, I expected it to be more specific though :)

          • @[email protected]
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            15 days ago

            late to the party, but that’s actually one of the heartwarming and ridiculous at the same time stories of mathematics