dentrolusan
dentrolusan t1_ixd0ezp wrote
Reply to comment by LeadPipePromoter in TIL John Williams has been nominated for 52(FIFTYTWO) Oscars. by Robinsonirish
Note that some of those nominations were in fact unwinnable, because he was running against himself.
dentrolusan t1_ixltxkw wrote
Reply to comment by Dawnawaken92 in TIL Diophantus of Alexandria, a mathematician from the 3rd century, came up with many mathematical equations that took a long time to solve. The last one, Fermat's Last Theorem, was first stated in 1637 and was proved in 1995 by British mathematician Andrew Wiles. by dustofoblivion123
Not at all. He worked on it for years, and in secret. He went so far as to regularly publish pieces of a manuscript that he'd intended as a book on a completely different subfield, just to throw off his colleagues from suspecting.