Fond of mathmatics?
Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 12:53 pmI read an interesting interview with Devin where he talks about Skeksis being connected to Fermat's Last Theorem:
"I wanted to ask about a couple songs. I hear one of them is based around a theorem?
Yeah, Skeksis. And the Infodump at the end. Uh, Fermat, the mathematician's name was. And he was a French mathematician. It was Fermat's Last Theorem. And it was considered to be unproven for years. And then somebody in, like, 1991, Andrew Wiles I think his name was - a mathematician - spent seven years in isolation and solved this thing. And it links two modes of thinking, between elliptic curves and modular forms, I think it was. So it bridged two theories that were previously thought to be completely unrelated. So the whole record became an exercise in a musical play on that. Kind of linking the sensitive DTB stuff to the more harsh Strapping stuff and see what collision occurs. "
Very interesting to read! I study mathmatics myself and it's pretty cool Devin knows such stuff (elliptic curves are hard to understand!). Is he particulary interested in math or was he just inspired by Fermat's theorem and the story of Andrew Wiles?
(By the way; the interesting part is that Fermat claimed he also found a proof for his theorem, but that he had no space on his paper left to write it down. So now, almost 3 centuries later, someone did manage to proof this theorem but certainly not with the ideas Fermat had, and with much more complex theory! Andrew Wiles' proof is about a hundred pages long...)
Will there be a song about the Riemann-hypothesis, one of the most important open questions in mathmatics at the moment?
"I wanted to ask about a couple songs. I hear one of them is based around a theorem?
Yeah, Skeksis. And the Infodump at the end. Uh, Fermat, the mathematician's name was. And he was a French mathematician. It was Fermat's Last Theorem. And it was considered to be unproven for years. And then somebody in, like, 1991, Andrew Wiles I think his name was - a mathematician - spent seven years in isolation and solved this thing. And it links two modes of thinking, between elliptic curves and modular forms, I think it was. So it bridged two theories that were previously thought to be completely unrelated. So the whole record became an exercise in a musical play on that. Kind of linking the sensitive DTB stuff to the more harsh Strapping stuff and see what collision occurs. "
Very interesting to read! I study mathmatics myself and it's pretty cool Devin knows such stuff (elliptic curves are hard to understand!). Is he particulary interested in math or was he just inspired by Fermat's theorem and the story of Andrew Wiles?
(By the way; the interesting part is that Fermat claimed he also found a proof for his theorem, but that he had no space on his paper left to write it down. So now, almost 3 centuries later, someone did manage to proof this theorem but certainly not with the ideas Fermat had, and with much more complex theory! Andrew Wiles' proof is about a hundred pages long...)
Will there be a song about the Riemann-hypothesis, one of the most important open questions in mathmatics at the moment?
