Re: Fermat's Last Theorem

In article <em4t2k$9bp$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Julian V. Noble <jvn@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I agree that he may have discovered one of the false proofs.
But I have this nagging feeling he may have discovered a good
proof that did not require knowing either modular forms or
elliptic forms, or their connection. It just seems to me too
much like swatting a gnat with a sledgehammer.

That's an awfully tough gnat...

Robert Israel israel@xxxxxxxxxxx
Department of Mathematics http://www.math.ubc.ca/~israel
University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC, Canada
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