Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site arizona.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!houxm!ihnp4!arizona!gary From: gary@arizona.UUCP (Gary Marc Levin) Newsgroups: net.math Subject: Re: "Proof" of Fermat's Last Theorem Message-ID: <20123@arizona.UUCP> Date: Mon, 14-Jan-85 22:46:56 EST Article-I.D.: arizona.20123 Posted: Mon Jan 14 22:46:56 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 15-Jan-85 06:10:42 EST References: <8197@watarts.UUCP> <10761@watmath.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Dept of CS, U of Arizona, Tucson Lines: 17 I attended the MAA part of the joint AMS/MAA meeting where the paper was to be presented. (I am a faculty member of the Institute for Retraining in Computer Science and had a couple of presentations to make.) I arrived too late to hear the presentation, but the mathematicians that I knew said that it was a very uncomfortable situation. The author suffers from some condition that has left him unable to speak or walk. His wife, who apparently spoke little English and knew no mathematics, was presenting the paper. She read the abstract and that was it. On being asked if there was a pre-print available, she said ``No.'' My guess is that the problem is still open. -- Gary Levin / Dept of CS / U of AZ / Tucson, AZ 85721 / (602) 621-4231