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I like that story, too, but note that the actual quote was: "I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which this margin is too narrow to contain." h
by vog 9y ago
I like that story, too, but note that the actual quote was:
"I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which this margin is too narrow to contain."
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/Diophantus-II-8.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/Diophant...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat%27s_Last_Theorem#Fermat%27s_conjecture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat%27s_Last_Theorem#Fermat...
- vog 9y agoWow, being downvoted for correcting a misquote. That's HN at its best.
- williamdclt 9y agoThis was not a quote
- hardlianotion 9y agoThe vote was very harsh, but parent was laying out some kind of opposite to the quote, not misquoting
- vog 9y agoThanks for pointing this out. BTW, I really wish that short explainations were mandatory for downvotes. This would have cleared this up early on.
- tontonius 9y agotoo much autism
- sjcsjc 9y agoSatire, not a misquote, I think.