[AccessD] Computer prose

FreddyCat freddycat99 at gmail.com
Sat Sep 26 19:39:31 CDT 2009


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=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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