• Klear@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      It’s a reference to Fermat’s Last Theorem.

      Tl;dr is that a legendary mathematician wrote in a margin of a book that he’s got a proof of a particular proposition, but that the proof is too long to fit into said margin. That was around the year 1637. A proof was finally found in 1994.

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          13 hours ago

          late to the party, but that’s actually one of the heartwarming and ridiculous at the same time stories of mathematics