Re: Help in answering news story on refutation of fermat's last theorem

In <1117140680.971210.12320@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, on
05/26/2005
at 01:51 PM, anzaurres1@xxxxxxxxxxx said:

>Each and every theory created by serious mathematicians has in mind a
>particular concrete example which satisfies all the definitions and
>axioms of the theory.

Nonsense. Take Hyperbolic Geometry; the theory came before any know
models of it.

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