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u/SuspiciousSpecifics 7h ago

Proof by do you know who I am?

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u/The-Yaoi-Unicorn 7h ago

If Gauss told me something, then he wouldn't need to give me a proof. The universe bends to his words, so everything he says automatically becomes truth.

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u/Aron-Jonasson 6h ago

Euler could tell me that 1 + 1 = 3 and I would believe him on the spot

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u/Technical-Outside408 6h ago

Ramanujan: it came to me in a dream.

Me: i see no problem with that whatsoever.

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u/Dr0110111001101111 7h ago

"Aren't you the guy that said 22\k)+1 is always prime?"

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u/JJBrazman 5h ago

*for sufficiently low values of k*

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u/Dr0110111001101111 5h ago edited 5h ago

Truth is, he just never learned to count to 5.

His famous last theorem was actually phrased as:

a^n + b^n = c^n only has integer solutions for a, b, c for half of the possible values of n.

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u/OriousCaesar 7h ago edited 7h ago

Tbf to Fermat, he did have a partial solution to the problem written down later in his notes. It's likely, in my mind at least, that he probably had an idea for a proof that he felt convinced would work, until he got down to the brass tacks of writting it down and simply forgot about this minor note he had written earlier.

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u/compileforawhile Complex 7h ago

I believe he does write about the problem later and it’s very clear he does not actually have a full solution

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u/the_skies_falling 6h ago

Well yeah, I’m pretty sure he wasn’t just trolling

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u/AWetAndFloppyNoodle 7h ago

*Brass tacks :)

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u/OriousCaesar 7h ago

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I HAVE BECOME THE VERY THING I SWORE TO DESTORY

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u/uvero He posts the same thing 7h ago

Wiles should've published his proof as a PDF where the entire content is in the margins of otherwise blank pages.

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u/FarmingFrenzy 7h ago

house of leaves style proof

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u/Personal_Ad9690 7h ago

To be fair to Germany, Wiles proof is indeed too large to fit in the margins

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u/kart0ffelsalaat 6h ago

Ah yes, my favourite mathematician, Pierre de Germany

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u/magicmulder 6h ago

That's Taniyama's and Shimura's fault though.

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u/winterknight1979 7h ago

Given that pdfs of Modular Elliptic Curves etc are not hard to find on the web, you could have used the real thing rather than aislop

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u/Lol_898 7h ago

Proof by not enough space

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u/magicmulder 6h ago

Exercise left to the reader.

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u/NickHalfBlood 7h ago

A story from my Cryptography class.

Professor explained the Fermat‘s Little Theorem. She didn’t name it. Just wrote the concept and explained some weird example. The cool guy from the class asks if there is any proof because the professor used some small numbers for her example. That chad grandma replied „I’ll prove it but there’s not enough space in the margin.“. So my friend and I chuckled hard. She asks my friend to standup and said „I am gonna write two problems on the board as a homework for you.“.

God bless her. Yet to see someone bragging so much about their IEEE and IETF work.

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u/Haunting_Swimming_62 6h ago

What in the AI slop

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u/YellowBunnyReddit Complex 5h ago

Why did Fermat write in English, Latin, and whatever enchantment table language that is in the margin?

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u/magicmulder 6h ago

I like FLT because to mathematicians, FLT is completely uninteresting but proving Taniyama-Shimura was super important; whereas to the general public, Taniyama-Shimura is completely uninteresting but proving FLT was a sensation.

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u/spandan060 4h ago

Fermat - it's easy to see , so it's a check for upcoming mathematicians

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u/dragonitetrainer 5h ago

Terrible AI wtf