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From: darrelj@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Darrel VanBuer)
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Subject: Re: Fermat's Last Theorem (4-color really)
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Date: Sun, 12-Feb-84 17:44:27 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb 12 17:44:27 1984
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Organization: System Development Corporation, Santa Monica
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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
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