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I cannot think of any "practical" use of this theorem (like for me FLT useless - but so elegant and intriguing).
By the way, the picture on the cover is that of Gauss - not our buddy Steve.
I cannot think of any "practical" use of this theorem (like for me FLT useless - but so elegant and intriguing).
By the way, the picture on the cover is that of Gauss - not our buddy Steve.
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Beer soaked ramblings follow.
"It seems a lot of stuff is attributed to Gauss - either he was really smart or he had a great press agent. Maybe he just had a magnetic personality."
- Concrete Mathematics 1989 R.L. Graham, D.E. Knuth, & O. Patashnik (Page 6 right side marginal note)
I remembered a younger (or is it simply a more pleasing portrait) looking Gauss from page 1,079 of Calculus: Early Transcendentals 7e 2008 by C.H. Edwards & D.E.Penney.
"It seems a lot of stuff is attributed to Gauss - either he was really smart or he had a great press agent. Maybe he just had a magnetic personality."
- Concrete Mathematics 1989 R.L. Graham, D.E. Knuth, & O. Patashnik (Page 6 right side marginal note)