Feynman on Fermat's Last Theorem (2016)

Re:Feynman on Fermat's Last Theorem (2016) by ox_n on Monday February 11, 2019 @09:12AM (#19134559)

Consecutive base numbers will necessarily alternate between even and odd. So even the closest base numbers still have a gap between their resulting odd number series, which only increases as the distance between base numbers increases.

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Re:Feynman on Fermat's Last Theorem (2016) by andrepd on Monday February 11, 2019 @09:51AM (#19134825)

Still don't get it. What do you mean by "base numbers" and what do you mean by "alternate between even and odd"?

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Re:Feynman on Fermat's Last Theorem (2016) by gowld on Monday February 11, 2019 @02:50PM (#19137639)

'ox_n appears to be trying to prove (by a pigeonhole agument) that the equation x^n + y^n = z^n in unsolvable for _some z_. That's much weaker than proving that it is unsatisfiable at _every_ z.

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