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Feynman on Fermat's Last Theorem (2016)

45 pointsby slbenficaabout 8 years ago

3 comments

kirrentabout 8 years ago
Previous discussion: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12018221" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12018221</a>
robochat42about 8 years ago
How can he integrate the probability expression rather than do a summation? Surely there are many real values of x and y that lead to perfect powers? Yet the probability tends rapidly to zero.
nullcabout 8 years ago
I think it would be fun to construct a similar conjecture where the same kind of probabilistic analysis says that it&#x27;s very likely to be true but it is in fact false.