2005年12月10日星期六

Fermat's Last Theorem was solved! (我又落伍了。)

The general family of equations:
xn + yn = zn
where n is bigger than 2, is impossible to find a solution. That's Fermat's Last Theorem.

For over 350 years, some of the greatest minds of science struggled to prove what was known as Fermat's Last Theorem -- the idea that a certain simple equation had no solutions. Now hear from the man who spent seven years of his life cracking the problem, read the intriguing story of an 18th century woman mathematician who hid her identity in order to work on Fermat's Last Theorem, and demonstrate that a related equation, the Pythagorean Theorem, is true.

( From http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/proof/)

The prove can be found here:
http://www.coolissues.com/mathematics/Fermat/fermat.htm

这个费马定理的中文名是什么呢?想不起来了。
查了一下,原来叫费马最后定理。论文似乎早就已经发表了啊。怎么最近才看到新闻啊,晕。

我是看了这里,还有这里的新闻。

3 条评论:

  1. 可能是因为证明者今年得了邵逸夫奖的缘故?

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  2. digg 怎么什么都有
    也想去看看乐

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  3. 呵呵,digg是满好玩的。

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