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[Mince]

My avatar is working better than yours.

[Mince]

Well, he's wrong.    No wonder it was his last.

Actually, he was right. He said he had found a proof for it, but that the margin of the book was too small to contain it.

I reckon he was lying about his proof.

[Mince]

Call me child again and I'll bite your knees off.

Well, have you heard of the Taniyama-Shimura Conjecture? Do you know what a modular function is?

[Mince]

Still keeping an eye on things from afar though, Roger :-)

Is he? Why? Where's he gone?

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

Call me child again and I'll bite your knees off.

Well, have you heard of the Taniyama-Shimura Conjecture? Do you know what a modular function is?

Tcha! What child hasn't/doesn't? 

[Mince]

Good. Explain it to the others.

[The Peepmaster]

Still keeping an eye on things from afar though, Roger :-)

Is he? Why? Where's he gone?

Here's where you can do that funny joke about "Manila envelopes" again, Mince. 

Actually, we've moved on from Manila and have flown to Puerto Princesa in Palawan. Just here for a couple of days before we fly back to Manila and then on to Cebu and Bohol. Lots to see and do. It's hot and humid, and the people are very friendly. It's evening now and I'm sipping beer in a hotel watching lowly life forms such as lizards crawling about where they're not welcome.

Which brings me back to Mince...

[Mince]

I'm sipping beer in a hotel watching lowly life forms such as lizards crawling about where they're not welcome.

That's hotel must have great eyesight.

[madjock]

Taniyama-Shimura Conjecture - any elliptic curve over Q can be obtained via a rational map with integer coefficients from the classical modular curve

X0(N)
for some integer N; this is a curve with integer coefficients with an explicit definition. This mapping is called a modular parametrization of level N. If N is the smallest integer for which such a parametrization can be found (which by the modularity theorem itself is now known to be a number called the conductor), then the parametrization may be defined in terms of a mapping generated by a particular kind of modular form of weight two and level N, a normalized newform with integer q-expansion, followed if need be by an isogeny.



I think (sorry wikipedia thinks lol)

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

Yep. That looks about right. 

[peter]

I think you missed a full stop Madjock but then hell why not.

[Tom]

That's it... it was on the tip of my tongue!

[peter]

It has taken Mince 3 months to swat up on Fermat's last Theorem, the bogs have been nearly out of action as he swatted this up.

[Vulture]

It has taken Mince 3 months to swat up on Fermat's last Theorem, the bogs have been nearly out of action as he swatted this up.

A tad TOO much information, Peter!