Re: Sklansky -Fermat Conjectures
David --
What motivates these conjectures? They "ring true" to me in the sense that they strike my mathematician's instinct as meaningful and not extremely likely (were I to lay odds) to be false; I do not, however, know enough of the technical material at the bottom of Wiles' proof to know if these conjectures would arise naturally from a careful consideration of it. (The reason I ask is that they also seem like they might have arisen from just idle thinking about Fermat's conjecture.)
And if you're trying to prove these and there's a lemma or two a guy with a BA in math from a good university (I studied mostly algebra and analysis) might be able to sink his teeth into, please PM me.
--Nate
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