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ChilePepino Posted:
It’s directly related to Fermat’s theorem, he scribbled it in the margin along with said theorem, in the margin of a book with some related maths in it. If you were familiar with that you’d read it and go “that is quoting Fermat, he must be selling that file that references the same thing”
Also it was unsolved for rather a long time, and had a reputation as a big important problem. Hence the moar file, hence also the “guarantees you a Fields medal” thing. It wouldn’t get you a medal now, but it probably would have… if someone else hadn’t already solved it. (NB. too lazy to go check if the eventually solver did win a medal or award of any kind… I think the medal has an upper age limit on it, so as to encourage younger mathematicians to do important things.
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