The Wonders of Arithmetic from Pierre Simon de Fermat - страница 31
Reconstruction of this proof was briefly published as early as 2008 [30], but the unholy was on the alert and presented this event so, that modern science disoriented by the false notion that the problem was solved long ago, has not paid on this any attention. However, all secret sooner or later becomes clear and the decisive word in spite of everything, still remains for science. The question now is only when this science will finally awaken and comes to his senses. The longer it will be in a blissful state of oblivion, the sooner the terrible events will come that already now beginning to shake our world like never before.
In order for science to win a well-deserved victory over the gloom of ignorance and mass disinformation, which are triumphant today, it needs very little. For the beginning it is necessary simply to search for the very cache, in which such secrets of science are hidden, that have not lost their relevance for three and a half centuries.31 Even if the papers found in the cache will be unreadable, the very fact of the existence of the cache will be evidence that science is moving in the right direction and the results will not be long in coming.
We already did something in this direction when we restored the FLT recording in the margins of Diophantus 'Arithmetic' (see pic. 5 and the translation in the end of Pt. 1). Now, by all means, we need to get a complete picture of the whole sequence of events that led to the discovery of the FLT in its final wording published in 1670. It will not be easily at all, but since we got involved in this story, now we have nowhere to retreat and we will strain all our forces to achieve the aim. Fortunately, for this we have all the opportunities granted to us from above to get the coveted access to the cache of the Toulousean senator.
3. What is a Number?
3.1. Definition the Notion of Number
The question about the essence the notion of number at all times was for scientists the thing-in-itself. They of course, understood that they could not distinctly answer this question as well as they could not admit in this since this would have a bad effect on maintaining the prestige of science. What is the problem here? The fact is that in all cases a number must be obtained from other numbers, otherwise it cannot be perceived as a number. To understand for example, the number 365, you need to add three hundred with six tens and five units. It follows that the notion of a number does not decompose into components that are qualitatively different from it and in such a way as usual for science i.e. through analysis, it is not possible to penetrate the secret of its essence.
Scientists having a question about the nature of numbers immediately ran into this problem and came to the conclusion that a general definition the notion of number simply does not exist. But not a such was Pierre Fermat who approached this problem from other side. He asked: “Where does the notion of number come from?” And came to the conclusion that his predecessors were the notions “more”, “less” and “equal” as the comparisons’ results of some properties inherent to different objects [30].
If different objects are compared in some property with the same object then such a notion as a measurement appears, so perhaps is the essence of a number possible revealed through a measurement? However, it is not so. In relation to the measurement, the number is primary i.e. if there are no numbers, there can be no also measurements. Understanding the essence of the number becomes possible only after establishing the number is inextricably connect with the notion of “function”.
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