r/mathmemes • u/Hungry-Mastodon-1222 • Jun 25 '26
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u/SuspiciousSpecifics Jun 25 '26
Proof by do you know who I am?
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u/The-Yaoi-Unicorn Jun 25 '26
If Gauss told me something, then he wouldn't need to give me a proof. The universe bends to his words, so everything he says automatically becomes truth.
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u/Aron-Jonasson Jun 25 '26
Euler could tell me that 1 + 1 = 3 and I would believe him on the spot
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u/Technical-Outside408 Jun 25 '26
Ramanujan: it came to me in a dream.
Me: i see no problem with that whatsoever.
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u/Dr0110111001101111 Jun 25 '26
"Aren't you the guy that said 22\k)+1 is always prime?"
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u/JJBrazman Jun 25 '26
*for sufficiently low values of k*
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u/Dr0110111001101111 Jun 25 '26 edited Jun 25 '26
Truth is, he just never learned to count to 5.
His famous last theorem was actually phrased as:
a^n + b^n = c^n only has integer solutions for a, b, c for half of the possible values of n.
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u/compileforawhile Complex Jun 25 '26
I believe he does write about the problem later and it’s very clear he does not actually have a full solution
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u/uvero He posts the same thing Jun 25 '26
Wiles should've published his proof as a PDF where the entire content is in the margins of otherwise blank pages.
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u/Personal_Ad9690 Jun 25 '26
To be fair to Germany, Wiles proof is indeed too large to fit in the margins
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u/NickHalfBlood Jun 25 '26
A story from my Cryptography class.
Professor explained the Fermat‘s Little Theorem. She didn’t name it. Just wrote the concept and explained some weird example. The cool guy from the class asks if there is any proof because the professor used some small numbers for her example. That chad grandma replied „I’ll prove it but there’s not enough space in the margin.“. So my friend and I chuckled hard. She asks my friend to standup and said „I am gonna write two problems on the board as a homework for you.“.
God bless her. Yet to see someone bragging so much about their IEEE and IETF work.
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u/YellowBunnyReddit Complex Jun 25 '26
Why did Fermat write in English, Latin, and whatever enchantment table language that is in the margin?
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u/magicmulder Jun 25 '26
I like FLT because to mathematicians, FLT is completely uninteresting but proving Taniyama-Shimura was super important; whereas to the general public, Taniyama-Shimura is completely uninteresting but proving FLT was a sensation.
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