I think that all of you are right but not really quite right. I say this because there is one person that qualifies as THE GEEK. THE ONLY GEEK. DAS ULTRA-UBERGEEK. His name is Andrew Wiles. What ??? you dont know him ???????? Why, he is the man who showed that "Fermat's last theorem" can be solved. For 350 years all the mathematians or mathemetics (I am not really sure how to spell this since I am Greek) in the world could not even get close in solving this x^n + y^n = z^n ->no solutions. It was the holy grail of number theory. For 10 years he was trying to solve this bitch and finnaly he did it in 1994. It was the greatest thing that happend in mathemetics in the last 350 years. Now THIS IS GEEK. The guy solved THE PROBLEM and he brought mathematics 50 years in the future. That is because he combines al of the higher nuber theories of the last 200 years in a huge parer 200 pages long just to show that this simple thing does not apply for any n. Please go and find some info on this and you will see what I mean.
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I think that all of you are right but not really quite right. I say this because there is one person that qualifies as THE GEEK. THE ONLY GEEK. DAS ULTRA-UBERGEEK. His name is Andrew Wiles. What ??? you dont know him ???????? Why, he is the man who showed that "Fermat's last theorem" can be solved. For 350 years all the mathematians or mathemetics (I am not really sure how to spell this since I am Greek) in the world could not even get close in solving this x^n + y^n = z^n ->no solutions. It was the holy grail of number theory. For 10 years he was trying to solve this bitch and finnaly he did it in 1994. It was the greatest thing that happend in mathemetics in the last 350 years. Now THIS IS GEEK. The guy solved THE PROBLEM and he brought mathematics 50 years in the future. That is because he combines al of the higher nuber theories of the last 200 years in a huge parer 200 pages long just to show that this simple thing does not apply for any n. Please go and find some info on this and you will see what I mean.