Fermat's last theorem Memes

Regular folks with time machines waste their opportunity on trivial tourist activities, while mathematicians? They'd immediately hunt down Fermat to demand proof of his infamous "Last Theorem" that tormented generations of brilliant minds for over 350 years. Fermat casually wrote in a margin that he had a "truly marvelous proof" but insufficient space to write it down—the mathematical equivalent of "my girlfriend goes to another school." Spoiler alert: he was probably bluffing, since the eventual proof required mathematical techniques not invented until centuries later. Every mathematician fantasizes about this confrontation. "Show me your 'truly marvelous' proof, Pierre, or admit you were just showing off!"

Pierre de Fermat really woke up one day in 1637, scribbled "I have a truly marvelous proof which this margin is too small to contain," and then chose mathematical chaos. The absolute troll left mathematicians banging their heads against walls for 358 years until Andrew Wiles finally proved it in 1995. Imagine dropping the mathematical equivalent of "I know something you don't know" and then DYING without elaborating. Greatest mic drop in scientific history. Either Fermat was a genius who actually had a proof (doubtful) or he was history's first clickbait artist. "Mathematicians HATE him for this ONE simple theorem!"

The ultimate mathematical plot twist! Pierre de Fermat famously wrote in the margin of his copy of Arithmetica that he had a "truly marvelous proof" for his Last Theorem (no three positive integers a, b, and c can satisfy a n + b n = c n for any integer n > 2), but the margin was too small to contain it. Then he DIED without ever writing it down! The proof remained elusive for 358 years until Andrew Wiles finally cracked it in 1994. So imagine poor Fermat's shock if a time traveler popped up while he was just casually scribbling his "I totally have a proof but no room to write it" note, only to inform him that this throwaway comment would torment mathematicians for centuries! His face says it all - from smug confidence to absolute panic in 0.5 seconds. That margin note was the 17th century equivalent of "I know something you don't know" followed by ghosting humanity for three and a half centuries!