From db01363db419c4c612a041422c8696da4f975206 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Kopp Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 20:24:28 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Update Beal.ipynb --- ipynb/Beal.ipynb | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/ipynb/Beal.ipynb b/ipynb/Beal.ipynb index c52c667..93b6162 100644 --- a/ipynb/Beal.ipynb +++ b/ipynb/Beal.ipynb @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ ">
where $A, B, C, x, y, z$ are positive integers and $x, y, z$ are all greater than $2$, \n", ">
then $A, B$ and $C$ must have a common prime factor.\n", "\n", - "[Andrew Wiles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wiles) proved Fermat's theorem in 1995, but Beal's conjecture remains unproved, and Beal has offered [\\$1,000,000](http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/06/billionaire-offers-1-million-to-solve-math-problem/) for a proof or disproof. I don't have the mathematical skills of Wiles, so I could never find a proof, but I can write a program to search for counterexamples. I first wrote [that program in 2000](http://norvig.com/beal2000.html), and [my name got associated](https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=beal%20conjecture) with Beal's Conjecture, which means I get a lot of emails with purported proofs or counterexamples (many asking how they can collect their prize money). So far, all the emails have been wrong. This page catalogs some of the more common errors and updates my 2000 program." + "[Andrew Wiles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wiles) proved Fermat's theorem in 1995, but Beal's conjecture remains unproved, and Beal has offered [$1,000,000](http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/06/billionaire-offers-1-million-to-solve-math-problem/) for a proof or disproof. I don't have the mathematical skills of Wiles, so I could never find a proof, but I can write a program to search for counterexamples. I first wrote [that program in 2000](http://norvig.com/beal2000.html), and [my name got associated](https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=beal%20conjecture) with Beal's Conjecture, which means I get a lot of emails with purported proofs or counterexamples (many asking how they can collect their prize money). So far, all the emails have been wrong. This page catalogs some of the more common errors and updates my 2000 program." ] }, {