Author: José Antônio Fabiano Mendes
Date: 07:42:00 02/03/04
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On February 03, 2004 at 09:51:31, GuyHaworth wrote: > >Good to see that, but a reference to Noam Elkies as the author of the relevant >article on CGT and Chess would have improved it. > >g By the way, Noam Elkies is famous for having published in 1988 a counterexample for Euler's conjecture. Regards, JAFM http://www.urbanlegends.com/science/fermats_last_theorem.html A related conjecture from Euler x^n + y^n + z^n = c^n has no solution if n is >= 4 Noam Elkies gave a counterexample, namely 2682440^4 + 15365639^4 + 18796760^4 = 20615673^4. Subsequently, Roger Frye found the absolutely smallest solution by (more or less) brute force: it is 95800^4 + 217519^4 + 414560^4 = 422481^4. "Several years", Math. Comp. 51 (1988) 825-835.
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