Re:Claude Shannon: How a Genius Thinks, Works, and Lives
by joe_the_user on Friday July 21, 2017 @11:43PM
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I believe the consensus among mathematicians is that Fermat either didn't have a proof or had an incorrect proof.
Any statement of the modern proof would require hundreds of pages and results not available to Fermat. So it's likely Wiles didn't rediscover the proof but simply discovered it.
Any statement of the modern proof would require hundreds of pages and results not available to Fermat. So it's likely Wiles didn't rediscover the proof but simply discovered it.