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July 12, 2019
reformatting slightly
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restore section relating to Fermat's religious faith, as "Transcendental Proof of a Finite Intellect?"
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→The 1993 Proposed Proof Today
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→Claim of a Proof: removed reference to Oakton Community College posting
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→Proposed Proof Today: Asking now about the reliance by this proof on the disfavored Axiom of Choice has even resulted in censorship by some.
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→See also
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Fermat was a human being known for his integrity and he said he had the solution. Since Fermat was human, it is not above human intellect so this section is unneeded.
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undo the reversion in order to restore the numerous edits. This is not Wikipedia.
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Move your stuff to an essay if you like, but the rest of us have no patience for turning this into a children's article.
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→Paul Boisvert: ref note - Paul Boisvert, professor of mathematics, Oakton Community College, Office: Room 2554 (Des Plaines Campus).
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→See also: added Pi and Transcendental number
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→Transcendental Proof
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→Paul Boisvert: quoted a line from intro to Boisvert's online article "Why, a child can follow the logic below."
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added to "Claim of a Proof" claim of Paul Boisvert, with link to https://www.oakton.edu/user/4/pboisver/fermat.html Simple Proof of Fermat's Last Theorem (oakton.edu) - note that link to Peter Schorer requires download/subscription to access its 89 pages
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revised display of external links in ref notes - the link resisted every attempt to include the title with the URL - bracketed the URL separately at end of title of linked site
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revised display of external links in ref notes
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→Transcendental Proof
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July 11, 2019
→Transcendental Proof
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→Transcendental Proof: necessary revision for clarity re the reasoned speculation of this Section
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→Transcendental Proof
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line from A Tour of the Summa - "The human intellect is a created and finite power.Therefore it cannot perfectly know the infinite." - added See also Paradox and Squaring the circle
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link to http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10662a.htm Mystery - Catholic Encyclopedia "In its strict sense a mystery is a supernatural truth, one that of its nature lies above the finite intellect."
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link to http://catholictheology.info/summa-theologica/summa-part1.php?q=536
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ref link to http://platonic-philosophy.org/files/Perl%20-%20The%20Good%20of%20the%20Intellect.pdf The Good of the Intellect, Eric D. Perl - with - quote
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the possibility that the Last Theorem was a transcendental proof of the limitations of human intellect and the mathematical and scientific method
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concisify
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Rewording to avoid the implications about the proof still being wrong and merely waved through by universities. Also removed opinion (a proof of this size is of course hard to understand)
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no solutions using whole numbers higher than zero - for all you 4th graders out there ;-
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no positive integral solutions
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used math symbols, corrected typo also
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In laymen's terms
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