Initial Conditions

It’s been a while since I received entertaining spam, possibly because someone at head office seems to have bothered turning on the uni spam filter (I kind of miss the Who’s Who spam though..) .

Regardless, some still gets through, and being in the Maths department means I get very specific spam. Like this, I got to today, which I enjoyed.

Dear Mathematician.

Fermat’s Last Theorem asserts that there do not exist none-zero integers, X, Y and Z such that Xⁿ+Yⁿ=Zⁿ, where n>2. The Theorem was first stated by Fermat in the early 1600s. He claimed that he had found a short proof, but left no evidence of what it was. Finding a proof became the most famous unsolved problem in mathematics until Andrew Wiles, in the late 1990s, found one. The original version of his proof was about 200 pages long, and so the question remains if a much shorter proof exists. Let A=Z-Y and B=Z-X in Xⁿ+Yⁿ=Zⁿ. Then we can get X-A=Y-B=Z-A-B=X+Y-Z. Here, our FLT proof is very short and plain.

Please, accept our appendix pdf file.

Thank you.

Sincerely yours. Jae Yul Lee and You Jin Lee.

appendix : A Short and Plain Proof of FLT. pdf file.

Um, no thanks. My mother always told me not to accept non-peer reviewed papers from polite yet unsolicited Korean Mathematicians.