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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: fermat's last theorim
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Date: 26 Mar 89 22:07:30 GMT
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Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
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In article <165*rdlanctot@instr.okanagan.bc.ca> rdlanctot@instr.okanagan.bc.ca (Ryan Lanctot) writes:
>Isn't that the one where he wrote in one of his notebooks that he had an
>answer, but never wrote down the answer?  I seem to remember seeing that
>fermat's last theorim was proven by a guy a while ago in an issue of Nature.

I don't know why this is all of a sudden showing up in the Apple II
newsgroup (I've directed followups to sci.math), but the story of
Fermat's Last "Theorem" is recounted in many popular math books.
It has not been proven yet, at least not to the satisfaction of
knowedgeable number theorists.  Don't believe everything you read.