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1273851 No.1273851 [Reply] [Original]

Hello, /sci/.
Anyone who learns new mathematics and asks: "What's the point of this?" is a dumb idiot. Why?
Look at this thing to the left. It's Fermat's last theorem. This little fucker had kept mathematicians busy for over four hundred years. All sorts of new mathematics were invented (ideal numbers, irregular primes, Sophie Germain-primes, to name some) until it was finally solved in the 90's by Andrew Wiles.
What is the use of Fermat's Last Theorem? There is absolutely no fucking use for the thing. Never has it been used for a proof or something like that. Yet, it served as a catalyst for a lot of new mathematics (modular mathematics, ellipses). So, next time you encounter a supposedly 'useless' item, shut the fuck up and think back to Fermat's Last Theorem and the stuff that came out of attempts at solving the problem.

>> No.1273854

It still doesn't affect most people's daily lives.
That being said, most people are fucking idiots and I love math.

>> No.1273858

Whoa, you really do not know what you are talking about.

You even at undergrad level yet?

>> No.1273880
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1273880

Mad high school math olympiad nerd detected in this quadrant.

>> No.1273884

Mathematics indirectly affects everybody, whether they realize it or not.

>> No.1273889

I agree with the point you are trying to make but you have not made it sufficiently well as to actually convince anyone who didn't already feel this way.

>> No.1274000

>>1273889
>>1273889
>>1273889

>> No.1274050
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1274050

>>1273851

Anyone who learns how to wash dishes and asks: "What's the point of this?" is a dumb idiot. Why?
Look at this thing to the left. It's a diagram for making plate glass efficiently. The lack of this fucker had kept glaziers busy for over four hundred years. All sorts of new glass-making techniques were invented (glass-blowing, crown glass, to name some) until it was finally solved in the 50's by Sir Alastair Pilkington.
What is the use of washing dishes in relation to this? The guy realized that as grease floats on top of water, so does glass float on top of tin. So, next time you encounter a supposedly 'useless' item, shut the fuck up and think back to Alistair's Float Glass and the stuff that came out of attempts at solving the problem.

Also op is a faggot

>> No.1274076

a=b=c=0
Where is youre god now OP?

>> No.1274079

>>1274076
0 isn't positive.

>> No.1274082

>>1274076
>Implying 0 is positive.

>> No.1274089

>>1274079
>>1274082
I dont see a fucking negative sign infront of it, do you?

>> No.1274095

>>1274089
hohoho

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1274092

>>1274079
>>1274082
<span class="math"> a = b = c = \infty[/spoiler]

>> No.1274097

>>1274092
Infinity is not an integer.

>> No.1274122

>>1273848

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>> No.1274125

>>1274076
>>1274089

hang on, what's 0^0, faggot?

>> No.1274129

>>1274125

<2

>> No.1274134

>>1274125
I'd say its positive

>> No.1274144

>>1274089
>>1274076
>>1274134

http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.0.to.0.power.html

>> No.1274172

>>1273851
Yeah but I don't understand ideal numbers, irregular primes, Sophie Germain-primes. So it's all worthless.

>> No.1274189

>>1274125
>>1274125
anything to the 0th power = 1
0 to the anythingth power = 0

0^0 = undefined

>> No.1274202

>>1274189
0^0=1, google agreed, don't bother them about it

>> No.1274265

>>1274189
so 0^-1=0.....??? are you sure about that????

>> No.1276794

bump