• @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