[AccessD] Computer prose

FreddyCat freddycat99 at gmail.com
Sun Sep 27 07:50:07 CDT 2009


Max,

Here is the link to index to various aspects of the proof and related
materials.

http://math.stanford.edu/~lekheng/flt/index.html

Fred

On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 5:33 AM, Max Wanadoo <max.wanadoo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Fred, that is incredibly interesting.  Do you have a link to the actual
> proof?
>
> Max
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of FreddyCat
> Sent: 27 September 2009 01:40
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Computer prose
>
> On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 8:11 PM, FreddyCat <freddycat99 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Max, Tina
> >
> > I watched a NOVA episode about Andrew Wiles and his struggle to solve
> this.
> > I don't know if that episode is available in original format. This is a
> > related link
> >
> > http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/proof/
> > Fred
> >
> > An update: The narrative for the Nova show is at
> >
> http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/2414proof.html
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Max Wanadoo <max.wanadoo at gmail.com
> >wrote:
> >
> >> The link wants me to sign up.  Post the link if it is genuine.
> >>
> >> I know that there is no proof for a cube where (x^n + y^n = z^n).
> >>
> >> But
> >>
> >> I do there is proof for a cube where 2(x^n + y^n = z^n) which is a cube
> >> when
> >> n=2.
> >>
> >>
> >> Max
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> >> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Tina Norris
> >> Fields
> >> Sent: 26 September 2009 18:03
> >> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> >> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Computer prose
> >>
> >> Hi Max,
> >>
> >> Sorry, it wasn't Fermi, it was Fermat. Here it is:
> >>
> >>
> >>  Fermat's last theorem
> >>
> >> Statement that there are no natural numbers /x/, /y/, and /z/ such that
> >> /x/^/n/ + /y/^/n/ = /z/^/n/ , in which /n/ is a natural number greater
> >> than 2. About this, Pierre de Fermat
> >> <http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Fermat%2c+Pierre+de> wrote
> >> in 1637 in his copy of Diophantus's Arithmetica, “I have discovered a
> >> truly remarkable proof but this margin is too small to contain it.”
> >> Although the theorem was subsequently shown to be true for many specific
> >> values of /n/, leading to important mathematical advances in the
> >> process, the difficulty of the problem soon convinced mathematicians
> >> that Fermat never had a valid proof. In 1995 the British mathematician
> >> Andrew Wiles (b. 1953) and his former student Richard Taylor (b. 1962)
> >> published a complete proof, finally solving one of the most famous of
> >> all mathematical problems.
> >>
> >> For more information on Fermat's last theorem
> >> <
> >>
> http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/_/gr.aspx?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.b
> >>
> >>
> ritannica.com
> %2Feb%2Farticle-9034050%2FFermats-last-theorem&source=Britannic
> <
> http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/_/gr.aspx?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.b
>
> %0Aritannica.com%2Feb%2Farticle-9034050%2FFermats-last-theorem&source=Britan
> nic>
> >> a>,
> >> visit Britannica.com. Britannica Concise Encyclopedia. Copyright ©
> >> 1994-2008 Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
> >>
> >> I was unaware that the complete proof had been published. I don't think
> >> my Dad knows that either, so I'm going to send this one off to him, too.
> >>
> >> T
> >>
> >>
> >> Max Wanadoo wrote:
> >> > Have  you got a URL for it Tina?
> >> >
> >> > Tried google but too  much fluff.
> >> >
> >> > Max
> >> >
> >> > -----Original Message-----
> >> > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> >> > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Tina
> Norris
> >> > Fields
> >> > Sent: 24 September 2009 15:08
> >> > To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> >> > Subject: Re: [AccessD] Computer prose
> >> >
> >> > Arthur, if you get Fermi's Last Theorem resolved, please let me know.
> >> > My Dad's been working on that one, off and on, for about 40 years,
> now,
> >> > I think.
> >> > T
> >> >
> >> > Arthur Fuller wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Shamil, Russian novelists have nothing to apologize for. IMO they
> rank
> >> >>
> >> > among
> >> >
> >> >> the greatest ever born.
> >> >> The only real issue in Russian lit (I didn't actually take a course
> >> from
> >> >> Nabokov when he taught at Cornell, but my then-girlfriend did, and
> she
> >> >>
> >> > gave
> >> >
> >> >> me all her notes to read. Nabokov and I see Russian novels from
> >> completely
> >> >> opposite perspectives. That's cool. I like opposing views, they
> >> stimulate
> >> >> discussion! Nabokov preferred Tolstoy, I preferred Dostoevsky. We
> both
> >> >>
> >> > loved
> >> >
> >> >> Gogol, a commonality among major other differences. Nabokov believed
> >> that
> >> >> every single detail within a scene was crucial. My GF once faced an
> >> exam
> >> >> from him, containing a single question, which I cannot quote, but it
> >> went
> >> >> approximately like this: when Count Vronski said xxx, what colour
> were
> >> the
> >> >> walls in the room? Whereas my exam question might have been, was
> >> >>
> >> > Raskalnikov
> >> >
> >> >> crazy, and if so why, and if not why not? Or going further back to
> >> Gogol,
> >> >> was it crazy or mere opportunism to sell dead souls? A strange
> >> >>
> >> > perspective:
> >> >
> >> >> Russia as the birth of capitalist oppression. LOL.
> >> >>
> >> >> Anyway, Shamil, I would be most interested in your take on "A Martian
> >> >>
> >> > Sends
> >> >
> >> >> a Postcard Home." I deem it a truly great work, and I made it through
> >> >> without reference to the notes, although I admit that it took me a
> >> couple
> >> >>
> >> > of
> >> >
> >> >> days to work it out.
> >> >>
> >> >> Meanwhile, I'm back to trying to resolve Fermi's Last Theorem. It's
> >> tough!
> >> >>
> >> >> A.
> >> >>
> >> >> On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Shamil Salakhetdinov <
> >> >> shamil at smsconsulting.spb.ru> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>> 2B || !2B ?
> >> >>>
> >> >>> --
> >> >>> Shamil
> >> >>>
> >> >>> P.S. FYI: In Russia eternal questions are: "Who is guilty?" and
> "What
> >> to
> >> >>> do?" with "Who is guilty?" one taking 99% of the time to "chat
> about"
> >> for
> >> >>> ages now...
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
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