Fermat's Last Theorum

there's a reason nobody ever Fermat's Last Theorumn. it might not even be possible. or maybe we're all just dumb.

Pierre de Fermat was this lawyer and an amateur mathematian who came up with all kinds of cool stuff and wrote it all in a notebook. he wrote out all his proofs in the margins of his notebooks. on one page of his notebook was written this:

Cubum autem in duos cubos, aut quadratoquadratum in duos quadratoquadratos, et generaliter nullam in infinitum ultra quadratum potestatem in duos ejusdem nominis fas est dividere: cujus rei demonstrationem mirabilem sane detexi. Hanc marginis exiguitas non caperet.

Anyway, in case you who haven't been brushing up on your latin, this basically means, "for integers x,y, and z that there does not exist any positve integer n such that for n>2,

      x^n + y^n = z^n

i've found a remarkable proof of this fact, but there is not enough room in the margin to write it."

it's called his LAST theorem because it is the last theorem in his book that could not be proven despite many, many efforts. only a few years ago there was a guy who claimed to have proven it. he spent 10 years in england studying nothing but this theorem and trying to prove it. i forget his name. anyway, he eventually came up with a proof using all kinds of bizarre math. everyone thought that it had finally been solved and there was joyous celebration around the world.

but about a year later someone found a mistake in his proof which basically ruined the entire thing. his reasoning was not mathmatically correct. it was not a proof. just 150 pages of numbers and charts and all kinds of shit proving nothing. that british guy probably killed himself after that. i don't know what happened to him. anyway, that's what i have to say about that.