From: tarcil@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (here and gone)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.tech,rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: Re: "The Royale" Question
Date: 11 Nov 1992 08:40:46 -0600
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In article <1992Nov7.225307.19089@panix.com> rryan@panix.com (Rob Ryan) writes:
>In <1992Nov7.184616.7540@umbc3.umbc.edu> cs202144@umbc8.umbc.edu (cs202144) writes:
>
>>> In "The Royale" episode, at the beginning and ending of the show, Picard
>>> refers to an unsolvable equation/theorom.  What was the name of this
>>> equation? What was the equation itself?
>>
>>It was Fermat's Last Theorem and I believe it stated that for x^n + y^n = z^n
>>for any interger n, intergers x, y and z exist.
>
>Yeah.  Actually, I think Fermat said that integer values of x, y, and z
>exist for n=2 only.  The amusing thing about the "theorem" was that Fermat
>had, allegedly, written it in the margin of a page in a book, *Arithmetica*,
>by Diophantus with the comment "I have discovered a truly marvelous proof
>of this statement, which, unfortunately, this margin is too small to
>contain."
>
>Last I had heard, it still hasn't been proved yet.  A few years ago, I
>heard that some (Indian, I think) mathematician had come up with a proof
>and had submitted it for inspection by his peers.  I haven't heard the
>result of that review, though.  The quest for Fermat's Theorem has spawned
>many "proofs" which have all been proven to be faulty.
>
>Does anyone know whether that mathematician came up with the right proof?
>
>
>
>-- 
>  Rob Ryan
>    Internet:   rryan@panix.com or Robert_Ryan@brown.edu
>    Bitnet:     ROBR@BROWNVM
>    Compu$erve: 70324.227@compuserve.com

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Subject: Re: "The Royale" Question
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>It was Fermat's Last Theorem.
>
>It goes like this:
>
>There are no whole number solutions to this equation for x > 2
>
>
>           x     x     x
>          A  +  B  =  C
>
>Easy to state, no proof though.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>Norm

sorry norm.....there is a solution to this.  In 1990 (if I remember the date)
a Swedish (actually not sure, but it was European) person solved Fermat's
last theorem.  He proceeded to sell the solution to Japenese for LARGE Amounts
of money.  The big deal about the solution that he discovered when he solved
it is that he could break codes at an alarmingly faster rate than ever thought
of, and he could make a code that could only be broke using the fomula.
This is brought to you courtsey of the National Public Broacasting Network
in America....( i have a friend who recorded the news report, so I know it
did happen)
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In article <1992Nov7.225307.19089@panix.com> rryan@panix.com (Rob Ryan) writes:
>In <1992Nov7.184616.7540@umbc3.umbc.edu> cs202144@umbc8.umbc.edu (cs202144) writes:
>
>>> In "The Royale" episode, at the beginning and ending of the show, Picard
>>> refers to an unsolvable equation/theorom.  What was the name of this
>>> equation? What was the equation itself?
>>
>>It was Fermat's Last Theorem and I believe it stated that for x^n + y^n = z^n
>>for any interger n, intergers x, y and z exist.
>
>Yeah.  Actually, I think Fermat said that integer values of x, y, and z
>exist for n=2 only.  The amusing thing about the "theorem" was that Fermat
>had, allegedly, written it in the margin of a page in a book, *Arithmetica*,
>by Diophantus with the comment "I have discovered a truly marvelous proof
>of this statement, which, unfortunately, this margin is too small to
>contain."
>
>Last I had heard, it still hasn't been proved yet.  A few years ago, I
>heard that some (Indian, I think) mathematician had come up with a proof
>and had submitted it for inspection by his peers.  I haven't heard the
>result of that review, though.  The quest for Fermat's Theorem has spawned
>many "proofs" which have all been proven to be faulty.
>
>Does anyone know whether that mathematician came up with the right proof?
>
>
>
>-- 
>  Rob Ryan
>    Internet:   rryan@panix.com or Robert_Ryan@brown.edu
>    Bitnet:     ROBR@BROWNVM
>    Compu$erve: 70324.227@compuserve.com

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