Sorry I wasn’t able to blog this the moment the internet lorded it over last week.
We all know Fermat’s Last Theorem (well at least my college buddies). The proof was never found though.
Andrew Wiles proved it last 1993.
And now, a Math prof from UP (not from Diliman I assure you, I will dig up where he is stationed) refuted Wiles’ claim. And even more, he blasted the basic concepts of Number Theory (Math 117 during college days).
quote:
that the real number system in basic algebra, the foundation of mathematics, is defective. Specifically, two of its axioms (the trichotomy and completeness axioms, for those who took basic algebra in high school and college) are false.
Read more here. ManilaTimes even posted the correspondence of these two great mathematicians of our times. Feels good to somehow understand something the netizens are speaking these days.
EDIT:
I find it weird that he doesn’t say what UP campus is he from. Here’s his site.
