As Fermat S Last Theorem Can Be Solved Like Pythagorean Theorem
1. As Fermatâs Last Theorem Can Be Solved Like Pythagorean Theorem
(n = 2 â a2
+ b2
= c2
), why Mathematicians do not Admit Fermat
Made a Mistake, by Postulating just Integer (Z) Numbers to Solve it?
Why Mathematics Alone Cannot Explain Problems Involving Physics.
âTodayâs scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments,
and they wander off through equation after equation and
eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.ââ Nikola Tesla
âPhysics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is
only its mathematical properties that we can discoverâ _ Bertrand Russell
Dear Friends,
Please feel free to say what you really think, and donât feel âintimidatedâ by this topic. Iâm proposing this
subject, but Iâll not take part in the debate, so that to let you totally free to say what you wish, once you
know in advance my personal opinion.
Actually, the problem Iâm proposing to debate is not so difficult, indeed. If you think: âahâŚFermat⌠itâs
not my fieldâ, please, wait for a moment, because it takes only ordinary good sense and logic (it doesnât
involve the knowledge abstract algebra, as someone could believe) to discuss the main points of this issue.
Even more important: the relationship between mathematics and physics (and other fields), is a point
that any researchers, in any fields, are expected to form an opinion, regardless of Fermat, Wiles, etc.
And yet, todayâ scientific-academic castes are trying â as it frequently happens! â to silence the debate,
trying to make researchers challenging âthe official proofâ by Andrew Wiles seem like âcranksâ, âignorant
peopleâ, etc., in a violent, offensive, intimidating and intolerable way.
Donât believe them! Carl Friedrich Gauss â probably the most ânaturally-giftedâ mathematician ever
â refused to âproveâ Fermatâs Last Theorem, saying that in his opinion it was the kind of âtheoremâ that
could be both âproved and disprovedâ.
(Source of image: Wikipedia US fair use)
2. A diplomatic way to say that the theorem seemed to him ill-posed and flawed in its assumptions.
Thus, the great Gauss âsmelled a ratâ, he understood that something was wrong with that âtheoremâ
and did not waste his life in trying to prove it.
I published here a few days ago â as a physicist â a new study https://www.academia.edu/34525439/
showing that Fermatâs Last Theorem an
+ bn
= cn.
- whose solution is coincident with the old Pythagorean
theorem: a2
+ b2
= c2
â is actually a physical/mathematical problem referring to the measurement of
physical/real rectangular triangles of our real world.
Therefore, as Pythagorean theorem is satisfied by both integer (Z) a,b,c (3-4-5, 7-24-25, etc.) but above
all by real (R) a,b,c numbers such as a = 3.7, b = 4.4, c = 5.7, etc., the famous Wilesâ conjecture of
1995, purporting to âproveâ FLT through integer numbers only and elliptical ânon-exitingâ curves
(âFrey curveâ: y² = x ( x â A) ( x + B ) is simply a denial of Pythagorean theorem and real âphysicalâ
world (where objects are always measured through R numbers). Thatâs reminiscent of the famous
Zenoâs paradox, of Achilles and the tortoise. For more than 2,000 years â from Zeno to Gregory of Saint
Vincent â mathematicians tried to explain Achilleâs motion (a physical phenomenon) in a wrong way â as an
âabstractâ mathematical problem of infinite series, forgetting that any steps of Achilles can be
mathematically seen as both converging to 1 (= ½ + Âź + 1/8âŚ+ 1/2n
) but also diverging to infinity (=
harmonic series: ½ + 1/3 + Âź + 1/5âŚ+ 1/n), and so it is impossible to solve the problem of motion in an
âabstract and merely mathematical wayâ through the infinite series. After XVII century and Newton, the
problem of motion of 2 bodies was correctly solved in the frame of physics, dynamics, and comparison
of velocities.
(Source of image: ibmathresource.com website )
In other words, no âtheoretical mathematicianâ who cheered (many times even without understanding it!) the
famous âproofâ of Andrew Wiles, can answer my simple number 3 question (the first 2 questions have
already been answered since 1637):
1) âIs FLT an
+ bn
= cn
satisfied by just the n index = 2 corresponding to Pythagorean theorem
a2
+ b2
= c2
?â
Answer: âYesâ (Fermat himself set this as the first fundamental postulate)
3. 2) âIs the Pythagorean theorem a2
+ b2
= c2
satisfied with both numbers and integers ?â
Answer: âYesâ Actually sizes of sides of ALL physical triangles we see are not precisely Z
integers, they are R numbers (e.g. 3.51 meters, 15.6 cm., 3.8 inches, 7.65 yards, etc. etc.)
3) âAnd so, why FLT should not be satisfied through numbers too?â
Answer: ââŚâŚâŚâŚ..â
I can wait for the answer â to paraphrase the US Ambassador Adlai Stevenson - âuntil the hell freezes
overâ!
Final question: Instead of wasting a life in trying to demonstrate that Fermatâs Last Theorem can be proved
by JUST integer Z numbers, why mathematicians donât admit that maybe (or better definitely!) Pierre de
Fermat made a mistake, purporting to prove his theorem with just a,b,c, Z integer numbers, and discarding
a,b,c R real numbers ?
Who was Pierre de Fermat? Superman? Spiderman?
Because the problem is quite simple: either Pythagoras is right (he is!), as his theorem can be proved through
both integer and real numbers as sizes of sides, or Fermat is wrong, purporting to prove Pythagorean theorem
through integer numbers a,b,c only.
Pierre de Fermat was the kind of person that sometimes was joking, and used âto talk bigâ.
It is time we admit his theorem was his greatest joke to generations of mathematiciansâŚ
And in addition, Fermatâs Last Theorem and todayâs attitude of scientific establishment, is disclosing
another thorny problem:
DIVORCE BETWEEN MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICS
We all know that â at the end of XIX century â mathematicians set â as unique scientific criterion â the
logical coherence of axioms and postulates, without any need to look for the physical, or experimental,
confirmation of mathematical theorems.
Riemann and Lobacevskij invented the new elliptical and hyperbolic geometries that â contrary to the
physical âparabolicâ Euclidean geometry and the V Euclidean Postulate - are contradicted by our physical
experience.
Moreover, we all know that mathematics âprovedâ theorems and paradoxes â such as the Banach-Tarski
paradox â that are totally contradicted by our physical experience. According to Banach-Tarski paradox, if
we admit - as a postulate â that a sphere is made by âpointsâ having neither size, nor volume, we can
logically and mathematically deconstruct it, and make 2 ânew spheresâ, identical to the first one, a true
âmiracleâ!.
As the remarkable quantum physicist Jack Sarfatti said in an interview: ââŚTheoretical physics is
monopolized by string theory, that became a sort of church, a religion. All we have is mathematics, quite
fascinating. Mathematicians are trying to deal with physics, and they produced interesting data, but they
couldnât squeeze any predictions from string theory corresponding to empirical observations. They did not
shed any light on todayâs scientific enigmas.â
4. However, in recent years a sort of little âturnaroundâ came from studies and theories such as those by Max
Tegmark (MU mathematical universe, or CUH computable universe hypothesis) trying again to link
mathematics to the physical world and reality.
After all, once GĂśdel (but also Tarski) proved how incomplete are all formal systems such as mathematics,
the naĂŻve and too enthusiast attitudes of the end of XIX century- beginning of XX century toward the
âpowerâ of mathematics (and the unrealistic and arrogant claim to find just in mathematical reasoning the
explanation of the physical world) began to decline.
Many scholars and scientists pointed out that the attitude of todayâs scientific establishment in trusting too
much in mathematics â even to the point of despising experiments and physics â is not at all âmodernâ. It
resembles the attitude of philosophers of dark centuries of Middle Age. In my other recent paper
https://www.academia.edu/34326285/ I just wanted to remember that ALL the most important discoveries of
mathematics (from Archimedesâ quadrature of parabola, to Boolean algebra, formalism of quantum
mechanics, Mandelbrotâs fractals, etc.) and physics in the history came from the patient observation of
physical world, and NOT from âtheoretical and abstract mathematical reasoningâ alone. As the great
mathematician Bertrand Russell used to say: physics is mathematical, thus the âdespiseâ (or at least the
disregard) of physical world by many mathematicians is simply unreasonable and incoherent.
Feel free to say what you think about.
Thanks.
Alberto Miatello
September 14, 2017