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Documentary: Fermat's Last Theorem

Posted August 31, 2010 11:42 AM

From mental_floss Blog:

Fermat's Last Theorem is one of the most famous math problems in history, as it remained unsolved for well over 300 years — and Fermat himself, before his suicide, had written a margin note claiming he had a solution.

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Re: Documentary: Fermat's Last Theorem

08/31/2010 12:01 PM

There is also Simon Singh's book on the subject.

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Re: Documentary: Fermat's Last Theorem

09/01/2010 9:57 AM

Had trouble watch the whole video, computer locked up about have way through it.

But alot of this modular systems sounds allot like fractals and fractal programming

Mandelbrot Generator, for graphics it works great, wonder if FLT can work the same.

oh, I see it is modular but the equation is different........higher math is not my strong suit but it is interesting, if you did already guess that.

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