Silverchase@sh.itjust.works to Math Memes@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish · 2 months agoProof by fucking obviousnesssh.itjust.worksexternal-linkmessage-square59fedilinkarrow-up1380arrow-down113
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minus-squareangrystego@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 months agoUpvoting because I trust you it’s funny, not because I understand.
minus-squareKlear@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 months agoIt’s a reference to Fermat’s Last Theorem. Tl;dr is that a legendary mathematician wrote in a margin of a book that he’s got a proof of a particular proposition, but that the proof is too long to fit into said margin. That was around the year 1637. A proof was finally found in 1994.
minus-squareangrystego@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoI thought it must be sonething like that, I expected it to be more specific though :)
Upvoting because I trust you it’s funny, not because I understand.
It’s a reference to Fermat’s Last Theorem.
Tl;dr is that a legendary mathematician wrote in a margin of a book that he’s got a proof of a particular proposition, but that the proof is too long to fit into said margin. That was around the year 1637. A proof was finally found in 1994.
I thought it must be sonething like that, I expected it to be more specific though :)