That Took a While, Huh?
A timeline of everything invented between Fermat posing his Last Theorem (1637) and Wiles proving it (1995): calculus, the piano, the USA, the light bulb, spaceflight, the World Wide Web.
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2017-08-16-that-took-a-while-huh/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)Transcript
[Timeline from 1637 ("Fermat poses problem") to 1995 ("Wiles solves problem"), with calculus, the piano, the USA, industrialization, the light bulb, spaceflight and the World Wide Web all invented in between] Figure standing on the timeline: "Soo… That took a while, huh?"