Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site sdcrdcf.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sdcrdcf!darrelj From: darrelj@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Darrel VanBuer) Newsgroups: net.ai Subject: Re: Fermat's Last Theorem (4-color really) Message-ID: <836@sdcrdcf.UUCP> Date: Sun, 12-Feb-84 17:44:27 EST Article-I.D.: sdcrdcf.836 Posted: Sun Feb 12 17:44:27 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 15-Feb-84 06:14:37 EST References: <16403@sri-arpa.UUCP> <189@pucc-i> <447@psuvax.UUCP> Reply-To: darrelj@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Darrel VanBuer) Organization: System Development Corporation, Santa Monica Lines: 16 Martin Gardner published a (purported) 5-color graph in his column in Scientific American in April of a year around 1974 (I'm sure of April, due to contents of the column fitting the first day). This column contained about a dozen interesting "results" in mathematics, none of them true! but many of them quite convincing, almost all of them difficult to verify. As I recall, the last few were pretty hokey sounding, but the first half could have fooled almost anybody. -- Darrel J. Van Buer, PhD System Development Corp. 2500 Colorado Ave Santa Monica, CA 90406 (213)820-4111 x5449 ...{allegra,burdvax,cbosgd,hplabs,ihnp4,sdccsu3,trw-unix}!sdcrdcf!darrelj VANBUER@USC-ECL.ARPA