The circuit of capital (or how we got into this mess)
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In Tom Stoppard's play Arcadia, Septimus Hodge poses the problem of proving Fermat's Last Theorem to the precocious Thomasina Coverly (who is perhaps a mathematical prodigy), in an attempt to keep her busy. Thomasina's (perhaps perceptive) response is simple—that Fermat had no proof, and it was a joke to drive posterity mad.
4 comments:
(please show the work in the margin)
In Tom Stoppard's play Arcadia, Septimus Hodge poses the problem of proving Fermat's Last Theorem to the precocious Thomasina Coverly (who is perhaps a mathematical prodigy), in an attempt to keep her busy. Thomasina's (perhaps perceptive) response is simple—that Fermat had no proof, and it was a joke to drive posterity mad.
intriguing.
I'm going to do some research...funny how that is my pat response to everything now.
knowledge glutton that I am.
i don't get it, but it's kind of a neat-looking equation anyway.
Check wik, they have a great explanation. Personally, I think this is how we divorced labour from their profits.
I'm all about the labour theory of value these days.
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