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[-] Klear@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

It's a reference to Fermat's Last Theorem.

Tl;dr is that a legendary mathematician wrote in a margin of a book that he's got a proof of a particular proposition, but that the proof is too long to fit into said margin. That was around the year 1637. A proof was finally found in 1994.

[-] angrystego@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I thought it must be something like that, I expected it to be more specific though :)

[-] zaknenou@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

late to the party, but that's actually one of the heartwarming and ridiculous at the same time stories of mathematics

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