Feynman on Fermat's Last Theorem

Re:Feynman on Fermat's Last Theorem by raverbashing on Friday July 01, 2016 @03:53PM (#12019185)

It's a nice exercise

However Number Theory is a different beast altogether

It has as much to do with "regular" math as English and Latin have in common, even though they are written with the same alphabet.

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Re:Feynman on Fermat's Last Theorem by siegelzero on Friday July 01, 2016 @04:26PM (#12019386)

That's not exactly true. Density arguments similar to this are fairly common in number theory (even if the arguments aren't rigorous). Granted, one has to be careful with arguments like this, but they can often be useful.

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Re:Feynman on Fermat's Last Theorem by GFK_of_xmaspast on Friday July 01, 2016 @08:39PM (#12020814)

Are you saying that number theory has not in fact been a core part of mathematics for hundreds of years.

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