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View Full Version : a simple proof of Fermat's Last Theorem
fmgret12 08-24-07, 06:12 PM I have really found a simple proof of Fermat's Last Theorem
how can i announce this solution ?
and are there prizes on this proof ???
and where can i send that proof ??
can anyone help me ??
I have really found a simple proof of Fermat's Last Theorem
how can i announce this solution ?
and are there prizes on this proof ???
and where can i send that proof ??
can anyone help me ??
pm me the proof, I'll see what I can do
Klippymitch 08-24-07, 06:52 PM You send your work into some Math organization and then they look over it for about three years and if they see it as undoubtedly true. Your equation will be put into math books and if it's money prize problem you'll get the money.
Klippymitch 08-24-07, 06:56 PM http://www.claymath.org/millennium/
If you got the idea from one of my posts. You could share the wealth:D
cosmictraveler 08-24-07, 08:42 PM I have really found a simple proof of Fermat's Last Theorem
how can i announce this solution ?
and are there prizes on this proof ???
and where can i send that proof ??
can anyone help me ??
Fermat's last theorem states that:
It is impossible to separate any power higher than the second into two like powers,
or, more precisely:
If an integer n is greater than 2, then the equation an + bn = cn has no solutions in non-zero integers a, b, and c.
In 1637 Fermat wrote, in his copy of Claude-Gaspar Bachet's translation of the famous Arithmetica of Diophantus, "I have a truly marvelous proof of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain." (Original Latin: "Cuius rei demonstrationem mirabilem sane detexi. Hanc marginis exiguitas non caperet.")
Fermat's last theorem is strikingly different and much more difficult to prove than the analogous problem for n = 2, for which there are infinitely many integer solutions called Pythagorean triples (and the closely related Pythagorean theorem has many elementary proofs). The fact that the problem's statement is understandable by schoolchildren makes it all the more frustrating, and it has probably generated more incorrect proofs than any other problem in the history of mathematics. No correct proof was found for 357 years, when a proof was finally published by Andrew Wiles in 1994. The term "last theorem" resulted because all the other theorems proposed by Fermat were eventually proved or disproved, either by his own proofs or by other mathematicians, in the two centuries following their proposition.
Fermat's last theorem is one of the most famous theorems in the history of mathematics, familiar to nigh every mathematician, and had achieved a recognizable status in popular culture prior to its proof. The avalanche of media coverage generated by the resolution of Fermat's last theorem was the first of its kind, including worldwide newspaper accounts and various popularizations in books and a PBS NOVA special, The Proof.
http://math.stanford.edu/~lekheng/flt/
I have really found a simple proof of Fermat's Last Theorem
how can i announce this solution ?
Publish it in a number theory journal: International Journal of Number Theory (http://www.worldscinet.com/ijnt/mkt/editorial.shtml)
and are there prizes on this proof ???
Not that I know of. But you could make money from books and interviews about it.
But!
Are you sure you have a simple proof? There is a very long line of professional and amateur mathematicians who have mistakenly thought that they had proofs.
Some things to consider:
[Fermat's last theorem] has the dubious distinction of being the theorem with the largest number of published false proofs. For example over 1000 false proofs were published between 1908 and 1912.
It is also worth reading these two short pages:
Zimaths: Fermat's Last Theorem (http://www.uz.ac.zw/science/maths/zimaths/flt.htm)
Ask NRICH: Proofs of Fermat's Last Theorem? (http://nrich.maths.org/discus/messages/24097/67072.html)
All over the world, university mathematics departments receive attempts to prove Fermat's Last Theorem. As the research-level mathematicians have other priorities, they do not want to spend large amounts of time corresponding with people who are very unlikely to have found a correct proof. I have heard various stories of how different departments deal with the proofs they are sent. One has a form: Dear ___, Thank you for your purported proof of Fermat's Last Theorem. The first error is on page ___ line ___. Yours sincerely, … Another files them in a central place, and if anyone's feeling bored, they might take one out and reply. I'm quite sure some departments just bin them.
this might be alittle off topic, but does anyone know if the problem of there being a atleast one prime number inbetween every 2 consecutive perfect square numbers is still an open problem (this is basically what andrica's conjecture states: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrica%27s_conjecture)?
i would think that since it has been proven that there exists atleast one prime inbetween every number and that number times two, that that in and of itself would prove that there must be atleast one prime number inbetween every two consecutive square numbers, thus proving andrica's conjecture to be true.
Fraggle Rocker 08-26-07, 07:41 PM In an episode of Star Trek:TNG, Capt. Picard said that Fermat's Last Theorem was still unproved after 800 years. It was finally proved five years after that episode was produced. A reference was made to this proof in Star Trek: DS9.
In an episode of Star Trek:TNG, Capt. Picard said that Fermat's Last Theorem was still unproved after 800 years. It was finally proved five years after that episode was produced. A reference was made to this proof in Star Trek: DS9.
yes. i read that on wikkipedia. ;)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermats_Last_Theorem#In_fiction
In "The Royale", an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Captain Picard states that the theorem had gone unsolved for 800 years. At the end of the episode Captain Picard says, "Like Fermat's theorem, it is a puzzle we may never solve." Wiles' proof was released five years after the particular episode aired. This was subsequently mentioned in a Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode called "Facets" during June 1995 in which Jadzia Dax comments that one of her previous hosts, Tobin Dax, had "the most original approach to the proof since Wiles over 300 years ago." [1] This reference was generally understood by fans to be a retroactive continuity for "The Royale".
:)
I have really found a simple proof of Fermat's Last Theorem
how can i announce this solution ?
and are there prizes on this proof ???
and where can i send that proof ??
can anyone help me ??
oh yeah. u do realize that what may seem like "proof" to an amatuer mathamatician (i am not accusing u of being one mind you) does not meet the standards of a formal proof, correct?
i can see many reasons, besides the one's given in formal proofs, of why fermat's last theorem would be true, and they are fairly simple in my opinion, but they probably don't meet the standards of a formal proof.
Dinosaur 09-02-07, 02:26 AM It is known that the modern proof could not have been developed by Fermat. If he had a proof, it would be fundamentally different from the one devised by Wiles (?spelling).
If somebody actually devised another proof, I am sure he would be amply rewarded by somebody, expecially if the proof was one that might have been developed by Fermat.
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