Comments by "Dr Gamma D" (@DrDeuteron) on "When Descartes Challenged Fermat (and Lost)" video.

  1. Descartes reasoning was circular, but no more than Fermat's was triangular.
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  2. and we thought trolling was invented with the internet, no, it is part of the one constant of history: human nature,
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  3.  @pyropulseIXXI  I can 't stand the neighborhood of the disjunction of the sets of all people who curse or censor "idiot"
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  4. as a physicist who shun formal mathematics (in the office), [thumbs up emoji].
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  5. omg, please read The Mathematical Experience by David and Hersh...a brilliant book of vignettes about everything we care about.
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  6.  @honourabledoctoredwinmoria3126  when you say "analytic function" I think "complex analysis"...is that too much? with all due respect to another doctor ;-)
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  7. as an old physicist, method comes before history. Both are fascinating.
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  8. why not all the fundamental theorem? A series, perhaps.
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