Vava Darcy - indeed. this is the problem with tng's obsession with including archetypal 20th century nonsense. never 21st/22nd/23rd/etc... just 20th. mustve been a slow few centuries, what with solving world poverty, ending hunger, uniting humanity in perpetual peace, contacting alien life, inventing faster than light travel, etc etc.. but who cares about all that.. lets pretend to be sherlock holmes again
@@jackssmirkingrevenge9365 Yeah, the TNG writers seemed to bash the 20th and 21st centuries a lot and regarded people then and now as unenlightened barbarians. In the Star Trek universe, people in the time period in question despite their many mistakes helped to forge the beginnings of world government along with space travel and a bunch of other things not to mention were the first ones who came into official contact with other races. Also, like you said, they were too busy solving the world's problems to have time to work on solving an insignificant math equation.
@@jackssmirkingrevenge9365 that's not true, there are some references to the 21st, 22nd, and 23rd centuries. It's just harder. And it just makes the lore so dense. Like needlessly dense. Star Trek isn't a work like Tolkien where it is just the result of one mind, where you can populate as much as you want. If you have to leave room for future writers. I find it far more egregious in Voyager. Everything Tom Paris does is nostalgic for the 20th century for no obvious purpose.
This episode aired March 27th, 1989. Four years later, in June of 1993, mathematician Andrew Wiles solved Fermat's Last Theorem. In 2016 he was awarded the Abel Prize (sometimes referred to as "the Nobel of mathematics") for his proof, along with 6,000,000 kr, or around $613,500 USD (adjusted for inflation).
This means that whatever caused the Star Trek prime timeline to diverge from ours caused this theorem to never be proven. The eugenics wars of the 1990s might have influenced into Andrew Wiles giving up before he could be successful, letting the mistery haunt humanity for centuries to come. First time I watched this episode I had a "wtf, when was this filmed?" moment (I wrongly thought it was later in the 90s). And of course it was filmed before it was outdated to us, but nonetheless it could be thought of as a parallel reality where the Eugenics Wars happened and Andrew Wiles never solved Fermat's Last Theorem.
in the star trek tos episode the doomsday machine, commodore decker describes the spaceship as being "miles long" (not "kilometres long" in the star trek universe) - or maybe the spaceship was actually called the miles long after famous astronaut miles long of the 22nd century. 😀
It's not really solved, since the solution they found 4 years ago was not the same of Fermat, since it required to use a lot of advanced maths that Fermat couldn't be aware back then. And we must consider that Fermat could also had joke around, trying to give the impression he found the demonstration of the theorem even if he hadn't it.
As I understand it, the consensus seems to be that whatever original solution Fermat had in mind (assuming, as you say, that there indeed was one) must have been flawed and unworkable. If anything, that makes Wiles (and others) contributions in solving it all the more impressive, not less so.
Are they not able to get simple science facts correct??? at the beginning Geordi states the planet has a temperature of -293 degrees Celsius.??? Absolute zero (a total lack of any energy whatsoever) in this universe is -273 degrees. So how can a temperature of -293 degrees exist????
After 5 years on the problem, a solution does exist: x^p + y^p ≠ z^p ∀{x, y, z , p>2} ∈ ℕ It is such that Fermat, himself, could have had the answer. The approach proves Harvey Friedman's Grand Conjecture concerning FLT.
Poor Picard, his writers had no idea that the proof was only a few years away :-) Andrew Wiles outsmarted even the brightest minds of the future ;-)
Vava Darcy - indeed. this is the problem with tng's obsession with including archetypal 20th century nonsense. never 21st/22nd/23rd/etc... just 20th. mustve been a slow few centuries, what with solving world poverty, ending hunger, uniting humanity in perpetual peace, contacting alien life, inventing faster than light travel, etc etc.. but who cares about all that.. lets pretend to be sherlock holmes again
Vava Darcy yup
@@jackssmirkingrevenge9365 Yeah, the TNG writers seemed to bash the 20th and 21st centuries a lot and regarded people then and now as unenlightened barbarians.
In the Star Trek universe, people in the time period in question despite their many mistakes helped to forge the beginnings of world government along with space travel and a bunch of other things not to mention were the first ones who came into official contact with other races.
Also, like you said, they were too busy solving the world's problems to have time to work on solving an insignificant math equation.
LOL, yep! If someone from the "modern" era can outsmart the brightest minds of the future, then what does that say about our future potential?
@@jackssmirkingrevenge9365 that's not true, there are some references to the 21st, 22nd, and 23rd centuries. It's just harder. And it just makes the lore so dense. Like needlessly dense. Star Trek isn't a work like Tolkien where it is just the result of one mind, where you can populate as much as you want. If you have to leave room for future writers. I find it far more egregious in Voyager. Everything Tom Paris does is nostalgic for the 20th century for no obvious purpose.
This episode aired March 27th, 1989. Four years later, in June of 1993, mathematician Andrew Wiles solved Fermat's Last Theorem. In 2016 he was awarded the Abel Prize (sometimes referred to as "the Nobel of mathematics") for his proof, along with 6,000,000 kr, or around $613,500 USD (adjusted for inflation).
technically he solved it in 1994, as his 1993 proof had an error which he fixed in 94
+ the Fields medal and the Copley medal a few years ago/
many mathematicians over the centuries, tried and failed.
Fermat didn't have a computer but he had a pet cat named "Andrew Wiles" who knows Latin.
This means that whatever caused the Star Trek prime timeline to diverge from ours caused this theorem to never be proven. The eugenics wars of the 1990s might have influenced into Andrew Wiles giving up before he could be successful, letting the mistery haunt humanity for centuries to come.
First time I watched this episode I had a "wtf, when was this filmed?" moment (I wrongly thought it was later in the 90s). And of course it was filmed before it was outdated to us, but nonetheless it could be thought of as a parallel reality where the Eugenics Wars happened and Andrew Wiles never solved Fermat's Last Theorem.
If it hadn’t been for Andrew Wiles, who knows how long it would have remained unsolved.
SUCK IT PICARD! HAHAHA! WE GOT YOU!
in the star trek tos episode the doomsday machine, commodore decker describes the spaceship as being "miles long" (not "kilometres long" in the star trek universe) - or maybe the spaceship was actually called the miles long after famous astronaut miles long of the 22nd century. 😀
Very definition of a scene that has not aged well.
I guess TNG canonically takes place in a universe where Andrew Wiles never existed
well, Khan Noonien Singh's rule and the Eugenics Wars took place in the 90s, so... probably, yeah!
Hmm, this episode certainly hasn't aged very well :)
should have used the inscribed square problem instead.
Or the Collatz Conjecture
Andrew Wiles didn't use a computer either 😉
only part time mathematician, and even a computer he had not😂
Indeed
Whoops
Those who say this didnt age well. Star Trek is from another timeline where the theorem is not solved yet. Solved!
And the result of solving it led to starships, holodeck and replicators.
Andrew Wiles prevented all of this!
I never knew that’s how you pronounced ‘Fermat’.
It's not really solved, since the solution they found 4 years ago was not the same of Fermat, since it required to use a lot of advanced maths that Fermat couldn't be aware back then. And we must consider that Fermat could also had joke around, trying to give the impression he found the demonstration of the theorem even if he hadn't it.
It's still solved, even if it's not a solution Fermat could have had.
Fermat probably had a false proof.
As I understand it, the consensus seems to be that whatever original solution Fermat had in mind (assuming, as you say, that there indeed was one) must have been flawed and unworkable. If anything, that makes Wiles (and others) contributions in solving it all the more impressive, not less so.
*28 years ago
it's most definitely solved
should have gone for rieman's
True but your comment might not age well either.... best is to state that it was proved! Unless you live 400 years, you cannot prove them wrong.
@@jceepf Best would be if he just said: I've found a remarkable alternate proof of this fact, but there is not enough space in the margin to write it.
@@seppforcher4714 Pretty funny! Yes indeed.
The Riemann hypothesis would have been extraordinarily difficult to explain to the audience in a minute's timespan though
Are they not able to get simple science facts correct??? at the beginning Geordi states the planet has a temperature of -293 degrees Celsius.??? Absolute zero (a total lack of any energy whatsoever) in this universe is -273 degrees. So how can a temperature of -293 degrees exist????
Oof, that didn't age well
After 5 years on the problem, a solution does exist:
x^p + y^p ≠ z^p ∀{x, y, z , p>2} ∈ ℕ
It is such that Fermat, himself, could have had the answer.
The approach proves Harvey Friedman's Grand Conjecture concerning FLT.