BinRoo 3 days ago

Aside: the AI summary of this attributes the wrong person. This is Andrew Wiles.

  • kurthr an hour ago

    Who solved FLT.

alex1138 40 minutes ago

I've only skimmed it but Simon Singh's book on it seems reasonably accessible to non-experts

One interesting thing of FLT is Wiles is on record as saying it opened the door (I think. This is from memory) to Langlands Program, a series of mathematical connections

Harder problems of course exist, Riemann Hypothesis et al but FLT still took hundreds of years to solve

  • hingler36 32 minutes ago

    I read Singh's book a few years ago, I really enjoyed it and left with a basic understanding of the underlying math

  • QuesnayJr 19 minutes ago

    You remember correctly. His result is a special case of Langlands.

pseudohadamard a day ago

Just to check, this video isn't NSFW is it?

  • convolutedsoup 16 minutes ago

    This comment left me so bewildered that I wanted to create a hackernews account just to comment this.

    • esafak 3 minutes ago

      It might be a nerd joke, with a video title like "I loved every minute of it, however hard it had been".

  • jackdoe a day ago

    depends, I would say it is not safe for work as it makes you question what are you doing there :)

    its phenomenology porn