Andrew Wiles: Fermat's last theorem (subtitled)

[lovelplants]

very nice video.. :)

[Aiwu81]

I am no math genius, so flame away, but here is how my simple brain thinks....

If a^n + b^n = c^n

then a^3 + b^3 = c^3

Any number divided by itself = 1 (I assume this is a proof, but then again I know what they say about assume).

Therefore (a^3 + b^3)/c^3 = c^3/c^3

and so (a^3 + b^3)/c^3 = 1

((a+b)/c) + ((a+b)/c) + ((a+b)/c) = 1

So a+b/c = 1/3

a + b can not = 1 since no two positive intergers' sum can be 1

No matter what you use for n using algebra you will always get the (a+b)/c = 1/3

[Aiwu81]

@Aiwu81 think my math toward end might be wrong, not exactly sure how to reduce exponents when not for same value (ie. y, z), anyway it's not possible to get a+b to 1 will need to follow up later is 2am

[x1x2x3ct]

@Aiwu81 lol nice try troll

[guitargod10940]

I think he needs more papers on his desk

[scrtg]

Revelation? Those are words by Poincare when he tried to explain what this faggotry, or topology, means. What the fuck? But I like the guy. He is funny

[mysongbook]

awww I'd LOVE to meet him!

[JOTTABYTE]

The most simple answer or solution is the hardest to find.

[Caporacolo]

This guy is a loser? What you don't know is that without people like him, we would not write on a computer, have a car, have planes, have cellphones, have kinda everything we use nowadays as a normal tool to live.

Mathematics is everywhere, the fact that most of people don't know it doesn't change this fact.

[thefetishkingfarts]

@Caporacolo im a lover of math and as u rightly said, math is used today to model the most complex systems right from super computers to mapping human dna. However, math should never be justified based on its applications. Hardy, one of the best pure mathematicians of the century even went as far as saying he hoped his work would never find practical application. instead, math should be look on as art where the mathematican indulges purely for the beauty and aesthetic expereience.

[Caporacolo]

@thefetishkingfarts I know, i'm studying mathematics at the university and i'm NOT going to follow the path of applied math, but i'll choose the curriculum of General Math (which is Pure Abstract Math).

I actually think it the same way as dr.Hardy, with the difference that i don't mind if my future works (i hope there will be any) will be used by engineers (for example) or anyone else. I'll do Math because i like it, not because it could be useful.

[thefetishkingfarts]

i doubt very much if einstein had a gps navigation system in his mind while coming up with the idea of relativity or if riemann had encryption on his mind while trying to solve the zeta function. the fermats solution is one which has had no great effect on our daily lives, i doubt very much if any invention would require it. But that does not undermine his work, coz it gave us new Idea and pushed the frontiers of math into uncharted territory

[Caporacolo]

@thefetishkingfarts I never said that this proof will have any effect on our daily lives. I didn't say too that mathematicians had in mind the effect on our daily lives when trying to find any solution to conjectures or hypothesis. Mathematicians usually don't mind what their proof will bring technology and whatever, they mind of what it will bring to in mathematical fields. But it is hard to say that mathematical discoveries from the past were used to realize new technologies years later.

[M1F2R3]

@Caporacolo He is a bit of a girl, saying that to prove such a theorem is incredible.

[fermatxxi]

To light up a house in the dark, often not necessary to enter the room and look for the switch, just turn the switch that is on the outside.

[spoonfuloffructose]

This was a great documentary. 

[aluxious]

Lol at those saying this guy is a loser-

His name will be celebrated in history books. How about your name?

[Samsunglee93]

dis guy is a fucking loser

[nepherous]

@Samsunglee93 One who solved Fermats Last Theorem, a theorem that was unsolvable to 350 years.

[JebusInVegas]

@Samsunglee93 Yeah dis guy is a fucking loser eh. What a fucking loser for doing something that he is passionate about. Fucking loser. I like da people who spend their time writing moronic misspelt comments on youtube. Dey are fucking cool. Dey are da ones who will be remembered.

[gkcnae]

@JebusInVegas u r absolutely right...lolz this guy is a loser and possibly one of the greatest loser in da 20th century...totally did nothing to provide better understanding of mathematic to humanity...lolzzzzz

[DutchGasMask]

@gkcnae go fuck yourself u worthless piece of inbred shit

[gkcnae]

@Samsunglee93 u r absolutely right...lolz this guy is a loser and possibly one of the greatest loser in da 20th century...totally did nothing to provide better understanding of mathematic to humanity...lolzzzzz

u can even see his name as one of teh greatest loser in da 20th century in any one of the biography website....

[zaphr89]

@gkcnae You're completely wrong, the biggest loser in the 20th century is you. The biggest fail of the 20th century was your birth and your concievement before that. May God have mercy on your soul.

[zaphr89]

@gkcnae Lol, sorry was meant for Samsunglee93...

[fremsley001]

A moving moment, which vividly recalls the emotion of my own discovery that all the zeroes of Riemann's zeta function lie on a straight line between Cowdenbeath and Forfar.

[Ferrari312pb]

@fremsley001

LOL

Love it.

[rinwhr]

What the hell that was short.

[warrencriswell]

Every artist, writer, scientist, mathematician, anyone possessed by the demon Creativity, knows this feeling of despair and joy.

[Shiftee88]

@warrencriswell i think pretty much any human being knows the feeling of despair and joy

[phabbiola]

@warrencriswell why the demon?

[warrencriswell]

@phabbiola Or angel if you prefer. Sometimes it's one, sometimes the other.

[SanderBessels]

That's not true. He probably went out for a walk once in a while. He even sayd that his young children gave him a wonderful way to relax, because children simply don't care about Fermat :).

He's probably more like any other father and husband than you think.

[nepherous]

@SanderBessels Did you read Fermats Enigma? That's a direct quote.

[JimboParadox]

I will give you this. It's amazing that a dude like him could be married at all; let alone the fact that he spent around 7-10 years of his life shacked in the loft (attic) working on this one problem. Amazing.