A personal victory
- Is it true that they will award you a PhD in mathematics?
- I asked for chocolate, but they insisted on a PhD.
- But you are only seven! How can they give a PhD to a primary school student?
- It beats me. As I said, I would prefer a chocolate.
- But what did you discover that made you so popular with the mathematicians.
- Nothing really. I just disproved the fundamental theorem of arithmetics.
- The one that says that the squares of the sides adds up to the hypotenuse?
- The one that says that every number can be uniquely decomposed into prime numbers.
- How did you disprove it?
- I stumbled over a counter example.
- Really?!
- If you promise not to tell I will tell you.
- Cross my heart, prepare to die.
- 1001 = 7 x 143 and 1001 = 11 x 91.
- Amazing! Let me press your hand!
April 1st, 2009 at 5:10 am
That’s pretty funny. Definitely caused me to look twice.
That table of multiplication for 13′s is a tricky one. =P
143 = 11 x 13
91 = 7 x 13
1001 = (7)(11)(13)
I imagine any three prime numbers larger than 5 would suffice for a similar effect. 143 and 91 both certainly look prime.
April 2nd, 2009 at 4:24 am
Happy April Fool’s Day to you, too!