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Pierre De Fermat = Fairer Tempered

June 20, 2018Original blog post

Fermat, fair-tempered, explains why he left out the proof of his Last Theorem: why spoil the fun for later generations? (An anagram.)

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[Title] "PIERRE DE FERMAT = FAIRER TEMPERED"

"Sure, I could give a proof, but why spoil the fun for later generations?"

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2018-06-20-pierre-de-fermat-fairer-tempered/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
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