"Steve Foley" wrote:
"jmk" wrote in message
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I believe it was "Interesting proof."

I remember it as being 'trivial'. I have always looked with skepticism on
anything called trivial ever since.

I suspect you are all thinking of Fermat's Last Theorem, which states that:

x^n + y^n = z^n

has no non-zero integer solutions for x, y and z when n 2. Fermat had
written the rather infamous note on this theorem:

"I have discovered a truly remarkable proof which this margin is too small
to contain."

And didn't someone finally work
it back out a couple of years ago?

Probably. I've been away from math class for many years now.

A proof for the theory is presumably now worked out, thought its length is
so long and complex that most doubt that Fermat had a valid proof.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat's_last_theorem