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      106 months ago

      It’s a reference to Fermat’s Last Theorem.

      Tl;dr is that a legendary mathematician wrote in a margin of a book that he’s got a proof of a particular proposition, but that the proof is too long to fit into said margin. That was around the year 1637. A proof was finally found in 1994.

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        I thought it must be something like that, I expected it to be more specific though :)

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          late to the party, but that’s actually one of the heartwarming and ridiculous at the same time stories of mathematics