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sirseatbelt t1_ixmqsjb wrote
Reply to comment by AnthrallicA in TIL Diophantus of Alexandria, a mathematician from the 3rd century, came up with many mathematical equations that took a long time to solve. The last one, Fermat's Last Theorem, was first stated in 1637 and was proved in 1995 by British mathematician Andrew Wiles. by dustofoblivion123
Well, maybe? But probably not? Think about how much time that is and how good humans are at preserving things. Its way more likely some monk somewhere worked on it, died, and they used his notes for kindling on a cold winter. The guy who solved it used all kinds of wacky math pioneered by people working in all kinds of different fields, worked on it for 10+ years, published his paper, discovered an error, and went into seclusion and wrote a whole 'nother paper addressing the error to make the original solution whole again. So its unlikely that anything Brother Simon wrote down in 700ad was terribly useful.
And anyway, Fermat's solution was probably wrong, since it was supposed to be very short.
sirseatbelt t1_j6humlf wrote
Reply to eli5 what is the point of therapy? by dumbass__stupid
It helps me as a sanity check. In the sense that "I feel this way about some stuff, is that reasonable, and what can I do about it" since in general my mental health is good.