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Andrew Wiles on proving Fermat’s Last Theorem (1995) [video] youtube.com

Full documentary: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0074rxx


BinRoo3 days ago

Aside: the AI summary of this attributes the wrong person. This is Andrew Wiles.

kurthran hour ago

Who solved FLT.

alex113840 minutes ago

I've only skimmed it but Simon Singh's book on it seems reasonably accessible to non-experts

One interesting thing of FLT is Wiles is on record as saying it opened the door (I think. This is from memory) to Langlands Program, a series of mathematical connections

Harder problems of course exist, Riemann Hypothesis et al but FLT still took hundreds of years to solve

hingler3632 minutes ago

I read Singh's book a few years ago, I really enjoyed it and left with a basic understanding of the underlying math

QuesnayJr19 minutes ago

You remember correctly. His result is a special case of Langlands.

pseudohadamarda day ago

Just to check, this video isn't NSFW is it?

convolutedsoup16 minutes ago

This comment left me so bewildered that I wanted to create a hackernews account just to comment this.

esafak3 minutes ago

It might be a nerd joke, with a video title like "I loved every minute of it, however hard it had been".

jackdoeopa day ago

depends, I would say it is not safe for work as it makes you question what are you doing there :)

its phenomenology porn

ThrowawayTestran hour ago

YouTube generally doesn't allow that

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