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Re: Clive Tooth's newsgroup stalking
Posted:
Jan 7, 2000 11:50 PM
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Chuck Giffen wrote:
>[Someone calling himself after a mathematician] wrote:
[snip]
>> But people should be
>> smart enough to know that FLT is exceedingly difficult and that it was
>> recently proved by Wiles, and two that an algebraic highschool-ish near
>> impossible (the opinion of .9999999999999... percent of historical and
>> present mathematicians).
>
>What! -- only about 1 percent? I would have thought it was
>more like 99.99 percent.
Oh, I don't know that it's so many. I'm certainly an agnostic on
whether there exists a simple proof. But I'm sure it won't be found
with a drunkard's walk through random algebraic manipulations.
Especially when performed by a fool who stops every time his
egregious error frequency leads to a contradiction, and needs
to wait for someone competent to find his mistakes for him.
Dan Hoey <haoyuep@aol.com>
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