A proof is like the mathematician’s travelogue. Fermat gazed out - TopicsExpress



          

A proof is like the mathematician’s travelogue. Fermat gazed out of his mathematical window and spotted this mathematical peak in the distance, the statement that his equations do not have whole number solutions. The challenge for subsequent generations of mathematicians was to find a pathway leading from the familiar territory that mathematicians had already navigated to this foreign new land. Like the story of Frodo’s adventures in Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, a proof is a description of the journey from the Shire to Mordor.
Posted on: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 16:14:17 +0000

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