This one's for you, Willie.

[fflo]

MR1784555 (2001k:11041)
Baica, Malvina(1-WIW)
Baica's Euclidean solution of Fermat's last theorem (FLT). (English summary)
Ital. J. Pure Appl. Math. No. 7 (2000), 151--156.
11D41

Spike Milligan wrote of a certain poet that he tortured the English language, yet had still not managed to get it to reveal its meaning. Trying to fathom the paper under review is similarly frustrating. The reviewer has read through the paper several times, and on each occasion has become more and more confused. There seems to be a plaintive argument that Baica's general Euclidean algorithm can be used to prove Fermat's last theorem, but since all the primary references are to previous papers of the author, and no coherent mathematical details are provided, this reader at least remains totally unconvinced.

Reviewed by Andrew Bremner

Comments

[disclaimerwill.livejournal.com]

Hee! That reminds me of the one Arrested Development where the gay secretary keeps referring to his homophobic boss (Henry Winkler) by saying, "She's not in," and then holding up a tape recorder and threatening to sue when Henry gets upset.

I miss Arrested Development only slightly less than I miss MR, incidentally.

Ah, the ol' "God's like me!" fantasy, indeed. Well, lucky you! (I recognize that, on one level, everyone who believes in God sort of has to believe that, because it's difficult to conceive of a being that your frame of reference can't conceive of... But still, is it that hard to add an asterisk with the phrase "I might be wrong" to your idea of what God might be?)

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is it that hard to add an asterisk with the phrase "I might be wrong" to your idea of what God might be?

It does seem to be, for so many of the Godly! [cf. hopelessness about world peace above]

p.s.

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I need to go back to the discs of Arrested Development. I think I saw the first season, perhaps before any more was out. Though I guess there wasn't all that much more, was there.

Re: p.s.

[disclaimerwill.livejournal.com]

Ooh- you've missed a lot of great stuff! (A season and a half of additional great stuff, that is.) I think there were, like, 53 episodes total, and I think there was maybe one I didn't laugh at. It's definitely worth your time. Probably twice, if you consider the Charlize Theron story arc in season three, which is doubly funny the second time around.