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Something I always wondered is if we know of the existence of a proof that is both simple and also non-obviously flawed and as such could have been Fermat's sol
by DC-3 6y ago
Something I always wondered is if we know of the existence of a proof that is both simple and also non-obviously flawed and as such could have been Fermat's solution?
- pathsjs 6y agoYes, Lamé solution, which assumes unique factorization in the rings of integers of cyclotomic fields, and can in fact be salvaged to prove the case of regular primes
- quickthrower2 6y agoThanks while I don't fully understand what this means I think I get the idea. I assume it's a proof that has the "n" over infinite many cases (primes) but not all of them? Googling it was hard because there are other Lamé things. I'll just imagine he wrote this proof. Not the full proof, but not lame!
- pathsjs 6y agoYes, for some details look at http://fermatslasttheorem.blogspot.com/2006/01/lams-proposed-proof.html http://fermatslasttheorem.blogspot.com/2006/01/lams-proposed... or https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/953462/what-was-lames-proof https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/953462/what-was-lam...