Is My Face Red?

[Mr Manifesto]

A friend of mine is studying mathematics at University.

His girlfriend came to a party at my place- he couldn't go because he was studying. I asked her to ask him if he's proven Godel's Theorem.

She talked to me later and said that Godel's theorem already had a proof. I said, "Oh, well then your boyfriend will want to claim the prize for it!"

To cut a long story short, it turns out I had Godel's Theroem mixed up with Fermat's Last Theorem.

Do'h! Has anyone else made any I-got-my-theorems-mixed-up errors?

 

[shemp]

I sometimes mix a club in with my spades.

 

[LucyR]

I suspect you're still mixed up.

Do some research.

 

[Mr Manifesto]

I'm reminded of the time I got ectothermic mixed up with endothermic.

Or the time I commented on the Creationist's theory that because the moon isn't ten-thousand metres deep in dust, the universe must be 6000 years old. I said, 'what is it with Creationists, they never know their astrology!'

 

[Mr Manifesto]

I suspect you're still mixed up.

Do some research.

Fermat's Last Theorem.

Feel free to elaborate, Lucy.

 

[LucyR]

Fermat's Last Theorem.

Feel free to elaborate, Lucy.

Well, it was my impression that Fermat's last theorem had been proved.

 

[Mr Manifesto]

Jeez. That link doesn't want to work. This is the url:

http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Fermat's_last_theorem.html

(I think the '-gap' might be wrecking it? Who knows.)

I found it by googling 'Fermat's last theorem'.

If you know of a proof, Lucy, just link to it.

 

[LucyR]

That link doesn't work either. Try something like Eric W. Weisstein
encyclopedia of mathematics. I'm sure there are lots of other sites.


Found this:

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/FermatsLastTheorem.html

 

[Skeptoid]

Andrew Wiles proved the Taniyama-Shimura Conjecture in 1994, a corollary of which implies the truth of Fermat's Last Theorem.

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wiles

 

[LucyR]

That sig catches me every time.

 

[LucyR]

http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Fermat's_last_theorem.html

(I think the '-gap' might be wrecking it? Who knows.)

I think it's just too long for the automatic system.

 

[Paul C. Anagnostopoulos]

I once mixed up the 13th and 14th digits of pi.

~~ Paul

 

[whitefork]

You may be confusing Godel's proof (proven) and Goldbach's conjecture (not).

 

[arcticpenguin]

You may be confusing Godel's proof (proven) and Goldbach's conjecture (not).

Sometimes I confuse that with the Goldberg variations.

 

[BPSCG]

Sometimes I confuse that with the Goldberg variations.

I always get the second movements of Vivaldi's 14th and 16th Basooon Concertos confused. But then again, everybody has that problem.

 

[Psi Baba]

Did Vivaldi write 500 concertos, or one concerto 500 times?

 

[arcticpenguin]

I always get the second movements of Vivaldi's 14th and 16th Basooon Concertos confused. But then again, everybody has that problem.

It's OK so long as you don't confuse them with bowel movements.

 

[whitefork]

I once mixed up the 13th and 14th digits of pi.

~~ Paul

It'd've been funnier (but still not funny) to say the 25th and 26th digits (both 3).

 

[Bikewer]

I have no such problems, being mathmatically challenged. Back in high school, I squeaked through Algebra 1 with a "D". The teacher mentioned "quadratic equation" at some point, and thereafter I knew nothing.
Advancing to geometry, I had great fun drawing triangles and parallegrams, and using all the cute little tools. I've always been artistically inclined. Second semester found me trying to solve the more advanced geometrical problems using arithmetic.
I kept telling the nice nun that "I wasn't getting it."
She said, "You're smart, you'll catch on."
So, I flunked. They sent me to summer school to make up the semester, where we duly drew little triangles and parallegrams.

 

[BPSCG]

It's OK so long as you don't confuse them with bowel movements.

Well, that's a bit of a problem, too, since in both cases, it's a relief when it's over.

You got me started...