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Re:Feynman on Fermat's Last Theorem (2016) by ColinWright on Monday February 11, 2019 @08:55AM (#19134462)
Do you really believe that:

(a) This constitutes a proof;

(b) This is the "proof" that Fermat had;

(c) Mathematicians missed this for over 350 year?

I'm not quite sure exactly what you are claiming.

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Re:Feynman on Fermat's Last Theorem (2016) by ColinWright on Monday February 11, 2019 @10:33AM (#19135121)
It looks like you edited this comment, but I'm serious. I'm trying to understand your proof, but I'm having trouble seeing what the steps are for higher powers than 3 or 4. I already know the proofs for then cases n=3 and n=4, but I can't see how what you say works in the case, say, n=5, or n=13.

Seriously, can you walk us through the steps of why x^5+y^5=z^5 has no (non-trivial) solutions?

And to be fair, there are cases where, say, undergrads have proven significant results that had been outstanding for a long time. Proving that prime recognition is in P is one such case. but in that case they published a complete, clear paper. In this case I can't really see what you're saying you've done, or why it's true, which is why a walk-through of the case n=5 would be so helpful.

Thanks.

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For anyone interested, this is what the comment used to say ...

The series of odd numbers must be consecutive and they simply are not when you add two different series together for all powers greater than two. It's okay. You'll get it.

  1) a whole number, n, taken
     to a power greater than two
  2) can be represented as a
     consecutive series of odd
     numbers
  3) where there will always be
     a gap in the series between
     consecutive base numbers,
     for all p and p+1
  4) therefore there will be
     a gap for all p and p+n,
     n>=1 combinations
Re:Feynman on Fermat's Last Theorem (2016) by ColinWright on Monday February 11, 2019 @09:15AM (#19134579)
OK, so I'm taking it from your comment that you really do believe this constitutes a proof. Thanks for the reply.
Re:Feynman on Fermat's Last Theorem (2016) by andrepd on Monday February 11, 2019 @09:48AM (#19134802)
>about: Fuck you, hater.

Oh, you're that guy.