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Proof by fucking obviousness (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 4 months ago by silverchase@sh.itjust.works to c/mathmemes@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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[–] angrystego@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Upvoting because I trust you it's funny, not because I understand.

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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 6 days ago) (1 children)

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

[–] zaknenou@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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