Thursday, October 22, 2015

[tgowdxxb] Andrew Weil

It is a curious coincidence that two of the most important people in the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem have very similar names:

Andrew Wiles
Andre Weil

Create a comedy sketch in which the actual Andrew Wiles is interviewed, but the interviewer, perhaps having misspelled the name when looking him up during preparatory research, interviews him thinking he is Andre Weil, asking him about mathematical topics toward which Weil contributed.  (Preparatory research also missed that Weil is dead.)  Wiles answers the questions competently because their fields overlap a lot, only slightly confused at why the interviewer is not asking about his work on FLT.  Perhaps pleased because he has become tired of talking about it.

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