Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suspect that what the Crimson fears is that the discussion will arouse the latent interest of students to know what is going on. The convention would provide, in the words of the Student Council, "training in the democratic process." What we fail to see is why this is a proof that we are "an angry and jealous minority...
...states that there are no solutions to the equation: x n +y n = z n , n being a power greater than the square and x, y and z being whole numbers which are not zero.* Fermat wrote on the margin of a book that he had hit upon a proof of the theorem, but that there was not room enough on the margin to write it out. He died before he wrote it anywhere else that anyone knew of. The theorem became celebrated in the history of mathematics, and dozens of able number-jugglers tried to prove it. Their efforts...
...mark prize was still there. Back came the answer: "Preis besteht noch" (Prize still stands). Krieger doubted, however, that Adolf Hitler would allow the money to leave Germany, especially since the claimant was conspicuously non-Aryan. A matter which he apparently overlooked was that the prize is offered for proof of the theorem, whereas his solution, if valid, would constitute disproof...
Harvard's sensational 52-23 victory over the Tiger swimmers Saturday night, before a roaring capacity crowd, gave conclusive proof to the swimming world that the Crimson team stands among the first three in college competition...
...just four copies. When it is taken into consideration that there are approximately 500 in the course, and only 78 hours during a week in which Boylston is open, it becomes mathematically impossible to believe that more than 185 students will be able to do the required work. Practical proof lies in the fact that while just twenty students were in Boylston last night, not one of the four copies were...