Feynman on Fermat's Last Theorem (2016)

Posted by slbenfica on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @01:16AM
from the lbatalha.com dept.

http://www.lbatalha.com/blog/feynman-on-fermats-last-theorem#email-newsletter

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Re:Feynman on Fermat's Last Theorem (2016) by kirrent on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @02:19AM (#14356072)

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12018221

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Re:Feynman on Fermat's Last Theorem (2016) by robochat42 on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @03:28AM (#14356327)

How can he integrate the probability expression rather than do a summation? Surely there are many real values of x and y that lead to perfect powers? Yet the probability tends rapidly to zero.

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Re:Feynman on Fermat's Last Theorem (2016) by nullc on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @02:16AM (#14356051)

I think it would be fun to construct a similar conjecture where the same kind of probabilistic analysis says that it's very likely to be true but it is in fact false.

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