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At math meetings, enormous theorem eclipses fermat.
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PMID:  17813892     Owner:  NLM     Status:  PubMed-not-MEDLINE    
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Hardly a word was said about Fermat's Last Theorem at the joint meetings of the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America, held this year from 4 to 7 January in San Francisco. For Andrew Wiles's proof, no news is good news: There are no reports of mistakes. But mathematicians found plenty of other topics to discuss. Among them: a computational breakthrough in the study of turbulent diffusion and progress in slimming down the proof of an important result in group theory, whose original size makes checking the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem look like an afternoon's pastime.
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B Cipra
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Type:  Journal Article    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Science (New York, N.Y.)     Volume:  267     ISSN:  0036-8075     ISO Abbreviation:  Science     Publication Date:  1995 Feb 
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Created Date:  2010-06-08     Completed Date:  2010-07-02     Revised Date:  -    
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Nlm Unique ID:  0404511     Medline TA:  Science     Country:  United States    
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Languages:  eng     Pagination:  794-5     Citation Subset:  -    
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