Класса так до седьмого я думала, что точные и естественные науки абсолютно непостижимы, и что справиться с ними могут только супер-гении с айкью уровня Мерилин вос Савант.
Похоже, что для Мерилин вос Савант математика так и осталась непостижимой:
"A few months after Andrew Wiles said he had proved Fermat's Last Theorem, Savant published The World's Most Famous Math Problem (October 1993),[31] which surveys the history of Fermat's last theorem as well as other mathematical problems. Controversy came from its misguided criticism of Wiles' proof; she was said to misunderstand mathematical induction, proof by contradiction, and imaginary numbers.
Especially contested was her unfortunate statement that Wiles' proof should be rejected for its use of non-Euclidean geometry. She said that because "the chain of proof is based in hyperbolic (Lobachevskian) geometry", and because squaring the circle is seen as a "famous impossibility" despite being possible in hyperbolic geometry, then "if we reject a hyperbolic method of squaring the circle, we should also reject a hyperbolic proof of Fermat's last theorem." "
Nigel Boston, Andrew Granville стр. 4
