John C

[Chef Andrew Gruel @ChefGruel]

Some serious Sandwich Love. Upgrade tips and a killer sub for mayo (if you're into that). And a full costing, not CNN-style.

[Veles @velesxbt]

The most expensive sentence in history was written in a book margin in 1637. "I have a truly marvelous proof, which this margin is too narrow to contain." Nobody found that proof for 358 years.

Fermat's claim was so simple a kid gets it: no three whole numbers solve xⁿ + yⁿ = zⁿ once n passes 2. That one line beat every genius who touched it for three centuries.

Andrew Wiles finally closed it in 1994. But he never attacked Fermat directly. He proved something stranger and much bigger - that two fields nobody thought were related are secretly the same field.

y² = x³ + ax + b

That's an elliptic curve, from number theory. A modular form comes from the opposite end of math - symmetry, complex analysis. For a century the two were studied by separate people who never spoke. Wiles proved they're the same object in two disguises. Fermat just fell off the bridge on the way.

Now the part the documentary skips. Those same elliptic curves guard your bank login, your messages, every Bitcoin wallet alive.

The famous problem was never where the treasure sat.

Wiles on the seven years it took him to see it:

"You enter the first room of the mansion and it's completely dark... after six months or so, you find the light switch, you turn it on, and suddenly it's all illuminated."

[History Girl @HistoryGirlBW]

A British animated propaganda film that was released during WWI.

[John C @Thon_badger]

@ChrisChavez Has anyone checked his urine?

[KM2 archive @KillianM2]

Cardinal Cahal Daly - Late Late Show 1995
The one with the infamous confrontation with Fr Brian D'arcy.

[Daniel Osinaga @dosinaga2]

Es la mejor pelea que vi en mi vida, lo tiene todo, vale cada segundo.

[John C @Thon_badger]

@teamtalkmagLIVE @monaghangaa @Doiregaa Was there anybody at the match?

[John C @Thon_badger]

@AllisonMorris1 Shock horror

[John C @Thon_badger]

@liamgfansclub LIES

[John C @Thon_badger]

@IrishTimesSport Decent career to be fair to the lad

[John C @Thon_badger]

@antoniabance @JamieJackson___ Not great on the old stamp duty tho

[John C @Thon_badger]

@itvfootball Against a stubborn Andorra side too 👌

[John C @Thon_badger]

@samuelluckhurst He’s kept the weight off. A great achievement for a man of his age

[John C @Thon_badger]

@gavreilly @GAAPlusOfficial Fair play Dessie. One of the good guys

[LimmyTwitchClipsPlus @LTCPLUS]

Limmy Offers Reassurance Over WW3 Fears

[John C @Thon_badger]

@ballsdotie What crowd?

[John C @Thon_badger]

@NeilsCub @nocontextfooty Big time. He’d still get a game for PSG ffs

[John C @Thon_badger]

@NeilsCub @nocontextfooty Best thing you can say of a man of that age is that he has kept the weight off. Not an easy thing to do