Hello /sci/,
I think I have found a direct proof of fermat's last theorem. It is only one page long but took me 3 days of thinking. After looking at it in retrospect, the solution seems very trivial - but I guess it's always so with NP-complete problems: Verifying is trivial.
There are two possibilities now: Either I am a complete retard or I was very lucky. In any case I have a couple questions for the case that I was lucky:
Is there a possibility to use it as a PhD thesis?
- If the theorem wasn't already proven then I know the answer would be yes. But it's only a much more simple proof.. so I don't know.
Could I publish it first and acquire the PhD afterwards (hand it in as a PhD thesis afterwards)?
What would be the best way to ensure that all credits are given to me? How can I have it validated by other people while simultaneously ensuring that I am acknowledged as the author?
Thank you very much
>>7792985
a) you're a retard, your proof is probably wrong
b) this won't give you a phd unless you used some really novel technique for it which generalizes well
If you are really sure, hand it in as an article for a peer-reviewed article
>>7792985
>PhD thesis
No. You would need to show that you've put in an extensive amount of effort into research and have obtained a high degree of understanding. It's not enough to find a trivial solution to a problem.
You should publish it on Arxiv. Though, more than likely it's probably wrong. Many people have discovered "simple" solutions to the problem that have been later on proven incorrect.
>>7792985
did the "scribbled in the margin proof" bit inspire you to optimize a solution the problem ?
I'm impressed that you understand FTL in the first place.
one day i hope to be able to ponder some high level dank stuff like this.
(doing precalc on khan academy) so i'm retard tier
>>7792994
You are a virgin.
>>7794355
precalc here as well though not using khan though I probably should've
>>7792985
Post it
Post it. If you don't even know anything about algebraic number theory then
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You didn't prove anything.