Dear All,
Hope you all are enjoying. This evening documentary is Fermat's Last Theorem' This theorem was given by famous mathematician Pierre De Fermat in 1637. Fermat was one of the greatest mathematician. He wrote this theorem randomly on blank portion of a page of some book. He said that he knew how to proof that; but, he didn't give the proof. I am sure every one know this theorem may be not by name. The says that for an algebraic equation, x^n + y^n = z^n, there is no solution for n>2 . It means you can not find three number (x,y,z) satisfying this equation. The only possible solution which exist is for n=2 which is our famous Pythagorean Theorem .i.e x^2 + y^2 = z^2. You see how simple the theorem is. Even 10 year old boy can understand this. But the proof is not as simple as this theorem. many mathematicians tried to proof this but their efforts went in vain. Andrew Wiles, professor of Mathematics in Princeton University, finally proved this theorem after spending many years. It turned out that the proof was 21st century proof, and also not algebraic.
Remember last time's lecture by Randy Pausch on how to achieve our childhood dream. This is one of the example because proving fermat's last theorem was the childhood dream of Andrew Wiles (strange..!). The purpose of this is not to learn about the proof, elliptic curves, Galois representation etc etc, but to get some motivation and inspiration. This is much needed for us diploma students but every one needs in every stage of life. We all need motivation and inspiration to do something extraordinary; and we get this from great people. So every one is welcome to come and enjoy this beautiful documentary today at 17:30 (5:30pm) in Lecture-room B.
Here are some links. See you all there.
Fermat's Last Theorem Documentary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FnXgprKgSE
Fermat's last Theorem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat%27s_Last_Theorem
Andrew Wiles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wiles
Thanks and Regards
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Syed Muntazir Mehdi Abidi
High Energy Physics Diploma