Mathematicians lend their names to theorems. But behind the name is a life. In Stefan Banach’s case a traumatic one as a Polish man living through World War II. Banach’s contraction mapping theorem features in our latest 1st year student lecture. Watch:...
Lire la suiteOn 23 June 1993 Andrew Wiles announced his historic first proof of Fermat's Last Theorem here at the Isaac Newton Institute. Thirty years later, we asked the man himself how he feels on the occasion: https://t.co/jaK7lpEjEF @plusmathsorg @Cambridge_Uni...
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Lire la suite30 years ago, on 23 June 1993, Andrew Wiles announced his proof of Fermat's Last Theorem. Discover how one of the most famous stories in mathematical history has opened the door to new mathematical advances in this article: https://t.co/xIATEwDXLz @NewtonInstitute...
Lire la suite30 years ago, on 23 June 1993, Andrew Wiles announced his proof of Fermat's Last Theorem. Discover how one of the most famous stories in mathematical history has opened the door to new mathematical advances in this article: https://t.co/xIATEwDXLz @NewtonInstitute...
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