Fall Evening Speaker Event
The 8th Annual NEMATYC dinner meeting was held September 30, 2016 at O’Connor’s Restaurant in Worcester. The featured speaker was Professor
Cristina Ballantine of the College of the Holy Cross, who spoke on Easy to State, Hard to Prove. Vice president Alex Cotter of Massasoit Community College, coordinated the event.
Several dozen of our colleagues attended. Professor Ballantine talked about various hypotheses that have resisted proof for decades and centuries,
several of which have actually been recently proved–notably Andrew Wiles’ proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem, that there are no positive integer solutions to 𝑎" + 𝑏" = 𝑐" for n > 2. The Pythagorean Theorem cannot be generalized.
Here are photos of some of the attendees. There are more on the history page at http://history.nematyc.info.
Cristina Ballantine of the College of the Holy Cross, who spoke on Easy to State, Hard to Prove. Vice president Alex Cotter of Massasoit Community College, coordinated the event.
Several dozen of our colleagues attended. Professor Ballantine talked about various hypotheses that have resisted proof for decades and centuries,
several of which have actually been recently proved–notably Andrew Wiles’ proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem, that there are no positive integer solutions to 𝑎" + 𝑏" = 𝑐" for n > 2. The Pythagorean Theorem cannot be generalized.
Here are photos of some of the attendees. There are more on the history page at http://history.nematyc.info.
