I have discovered a truly marvellous proof... which this margin is too narrow to contain.- Pierre de Fermat, in his copy of Diophantus' Arithmetica (as reported in The New Yorker)
Tuesday, 16 December 2014
Found in books - GUEST ENTRY
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