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theonemind | 1 year ago

"It is impossible to separate a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into two fourth powers, or in general, any power higher than the second, into two like powers. I have discovered a marvelous proof of this, which this margin is too narrow to contain" - Pierre De Fermat

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thaumasiotes|1 year ago

> It is impossible to separate a cube into two cubes

Later disproved by the Banach-Tarski theorem. ;D