For one of the questions on my son's number theory assignment, he's invoked Fermat's Last Theorem in the proof. I couldn't have done that when I was at university - it hadn't been proved then!
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Originally posted by NotAllThere View PostFor one of the questions on my son's number theory assignment, he's invoked Fermat's Last Theorem in the proof. I couldn't have done that when I was at university - it hadn't been proved then!What happens in General, stays in General.You know what they say about assumptions! -
Originally posted by NotAllThere View PostFor one of the questions on my son's number theory assignment, he's invoked Fermat's Last Theorem in the proof. I couldn't have done that when I was at university - it hadn't been proved then!
Seems more likely that a number theory assignment would use Fermat's Little Theorem. Are you sure that wasn't what he was talking about?Work in the public sector? Read the IR35 FAQ hereComment
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Originally posted by NotAllThere View PostI couldn't have done that when I was at university - it hadn't been proved then!Comment
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Originally posted by NotAllThere View PostFor one of the questions on my son's number theory assignment, he's invoked Fermat's Last Theorem in the proof. I couldn't have done that when I was at university - it hadn't been proved then!
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When I was a kid interested in science, black holes were a theory and there was (I think) one suspected one, based on reading Brief History of Time. Now, I know a Phd student who is cataloguing hundreds if not thousands of the things.
Equally, exponential inflation models were pretty avant garde.Originally posted by MaryPoppinsI'd still not breastfeed a naziOriginally posted by vetranUrine is quite nourishingComment
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Originally posted by d000hg View PostWhen I was a kid interested in science, black holes were a theory and there was (I think) one suspected one, based on reading Brief History of Time. Now, I know a Phd student who is cataloguing hundreds if not thousands of the things.
Equally, exponential inflation models were pretty avant garde.Comment
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Originally posted by d000hg View PostWhen I was a kid interested in science, black holes were a theory and there was (I think) one suspected one, based on reading Brief History of Time. Now, I know a Phd student who is cataloguing hundreds if not thousands of the things.
Equally, exponential inflation models were pretty avant garde.
Everything in science is a theory.
Induction allows us to make generalisations but we can never be sure they won't be falsified.
The fact that we can't unify small and large-scale physics tells us that some or all parts of our fundamental understanding are incomplete or wrong.Hard Brexit now!
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Originally posted by NickFitz View PostWhen I was in the 6th Form a teacher cut out a piece from New Scientist and put it on the notice board, which announced that a charge of 1/3evhad been measured - the first experimental confirmation of the existence of quarks.Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!Comment
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Originally posted by OwlHoot View PostWhat was the question, out of interest?
Seems more likely that a number theory assignment would use Fermat's Little Theorem. Are you sure that wasn't what he was talking about?
x^n + y^n = z^n has no integer solutions for n>2.
What was really important about the proof of Fermat's last theorem, is that it was proved as part of wider conjecture (Taniyama–Shimura-Weil conjecture) that had been widely assumed to be true, and unified two disparate parts of mathematics - number theory (elliptic curves) and algebraic geometry (modular forms).
The theorem fell out of that proof as a corollary.Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!Comment
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