The Wonders of Arithmetic from Pierre Simon de Fermat - страница 14

Against the background of the truly outstanding achievements of science there is no doubt that this virus of dark misfortune, which penetrated into its very foundations, could not have emerged from nothing and was clearly introduced from the outside. The malicious nature of the virus is disclosed by the fact that it always hides under the guise of "good intentions." And if that is so, then the task of getting rid of the misfortune is simplified because these are just the intrigues of the unholy, from which the real science always had sufficient reliable immunity.

But for this particular virus this immunity began to act in a very special way. Suddenly out of nowhere, there appeared a simple-looking task called “The Fermat’s Last Theorem” (FLT), which no one could prove despite the promised bonuses and honors. It simply scoffed at everyone who tried to find a solution regardless of whether it was an ambitious candidate for the prize or the greatest scientist. With the FLT many scientists were even afraid to deal in order not inadvertently to tarnish their reputation.

This fascinating game with a knowingly failure result dragged on centuries and in the end, everyone was so tormented that it was necessary somehow this problem try to close. Very serious people made a decision – the problem is to be solved and bonuses are to be paid. No sooner said than done. However, what happened next will be told in the next part of our work. But it will be only a preamble because in order to penetrate the essence of this amazing phenomenon we will have to come back in the past in some unusual way. And then as a result of our research, it will turns out that this task was solved long ago in the 17th century when Louis XIV the king sun began to rule in France and two Gascons faithfully served him, one of them is the well-known from novel A. Dumas is the royal musketeer Monsieur D'Artagnan and the other is his same age and countryman Senator from Toulouse Monsieur de Fermat.

The history did not preserve for us in writing everything that would be especially interesting to us, therefore, nothing remains, but to try to restore some events at that in a very unusual way what about we will also more tell. However, it is well known that this senator during his lifetime became famous for offering simple-looking arithmetic tasks to noble grandees, which for some reason no one could solve. But apparently, he didn't had time (or even perhaps he didn't want) to tell anyone about that wonderful and non-proven until now theorem therefore it is also often called the “the Fermat’s Last theorem”.

Especially curious is the fact that not a single piece of paper has been preserved from the manuscripts of his scientific works on arithmetic and even those that were published after his death. The only exceptions were letters collected from different respondents. This strange fact indicates that some amazing and even incredible course of events took place, which led to such a situation and the establishment of only this fact alone significantly changes the whole picture, which presented to researchers so far.

They even believed that Fermat could not have a proof of his Last theorem and justified it with all sorts of arguments. But then they needed to be consistent and insist that Fermat also could not solve all other his tasks since for his justification he has not left us any explanation. But if they were solved by such giants of science as, say, Euler or Gauss, well, then it is quite another thing and we could assume that Fermat also has solved them. But if even they failed, then science in no way cannot afford to trust words that look like bluster.