[AccessD] Computer prose

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



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=Britannic>
> 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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