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Re:Fermat's Last Theorem Earns Andrew Wiles the Abel Prize by _rpd on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @05:01AM (#11295915)
I don't know if you're being sarcastic, but Wiles had to first prove the Modularity theorem for a certain subset of elliptic curves, which lay the ground work for proving the Modularity theorem in general. This is one of the major achievements of modern mathematics.
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Re:Fermat's Last Theorem Earns Andrew Wiles the Abel Prize by ibmthrowaway218 on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @06:11AM (#11296155)
"marginal improvement" was the key phrase
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Re:Fermat's Last Theorem Earns Andrew Wiles the Abel Prize by kyzyl on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @03:29PM (#11300023)
Indeed. The curvature of my humor might have been too subtle. Easily mistakable for a troll. Luckily I'm often too late to threads--as you can see--to be subject to getting mobbed with down votes ;-)
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