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(Message started by: SWF on May 9^th, 2007, 9:12pm)

Title: Simple proof of Fermat's Last Theorem
Post by SWF on May 9^th, 2007, 9:12pm

A while back, I wasn't searching for FLT, but ran across this by chance:

"Fermat's Last Theorem proved by a simple method", X.S. Zhang, Engineering Fracture Mechanics, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 235-240, 1991.

That is a decent engineering journal, but a pure math article is out of place there. Are there many published articles like this? I know that false FLT proofs were frequently sumitted to journals but didn't know many got published.

Title: Re: Simple proof of Fermat's Last Theorem
Post by Obob on May 9^th, 2007, 9:19pm

In many instances the peer review process isn't as good as it should be. Nor is the editing process. I just found a published article on FLT that credits British mathematicians "Andrew Miles and Richard Taylor" with its proof.

http://www.springerlink.com/content/720575r387m72472/fulltext.pdf