Re: JSH: Math proofs

From: Jesse F. Hughes (jesse_at_phiwumbda.org)
Date: 09/12/04 

Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 16:01:31 +0200

"W. Dale Hall" <mailtowd-hall@pacbell.net> writes:

>> One thing that I haven't heard discussed is that my null test of
>> assuming the existence of a non-modular elliptic curve might eliminate
>> over 90% of Wiles's paper for consideration, or maybe more.
>>
>
> Golly, why wouldn't you have heard that?
> Because it's silly? Why "over 90%"? Why not claim it would
> turn a 100+ page article into a simplt 2-line proof?

*Two* line? Ha! It reduces it to a *single* line: the keystone step.

Don't underestimate the power of the NULL! 

-- 
Jesse Hughes
"She moaned, in pain and pleasure, as, in a confused whirlwind, she
glimpsed an image of Saint Sebastian riddled with arrows, crucified
and impaled."               --Mario Vargas Llosa on category theory

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