An Overly Sophisticated Proof of a Disproportionately Simple Fact 

This is like using a chainsaw to slice an onion

lmaoo, nice use of Fermats last theorem, but to make it better, include the entire proof of fermats last theorem.

LOL I actually laughed at the last line XD I was completely expecting a standard ""therefore a³ is even" ... Great job :P

I love that you dont even use just the n=3 case which has been known for like 200 years, but you go for the full theorem

clearly the most important corollary of FLT

This is the mathematical equivalent of seeing a rat and instinctively and immediately deploying a thermonuclear device to ensure you are safe from the rat.

Oh my god this is genius This is truly what Fermat was envisioning when he wrote FLT

[Sees the title] Huh? Interesting... [Sees that the video is less than half a minute long] What? How? [Watches the video] Oh, that's how

ah yes, the fun that anything already proved is valid to use, no matter how ridiculous to use it.

Watching this for the first time at 4am was the right call

I suppose you could extend this to say that the nth root of 2 is irrational, n>2

best plottwist in youtube history :'D german mathematicians have this colloquial of saying "mit kanonen auf spatzen schießen" - roughly meaning: using canons to shoot down a sparrow. that's probably the funniest example I've seen so far of someone using a Kanone to schießen a Spatzen ;D

I feel like you could argue this isn't actually a valid proof if anything required to prove the FLT assumes the cube root of 2 is irrational.

so wait Fermat still applies when you're adding the same variables together? I always saw it expressed as two different ones so this is very neat to know :)

The fact that he called this overly soficticated

This is the most complicated proof as we need to go through the entire FLT to complete the proof. 🙂

How can I laugh so hard at a 30 sec proof? Lmao

I am so sad that I have no idea what Fermat's last theorem is but I still found it funny because of the comparisons of the comments and how I completely lost track of the process in a single step. Edit: After watching like 2 minutes of a Numberphile video, I now know what Fermat's last theorem is. I did not expect it to be so simple.

This is that domino that gets bigger meme, but the final domino is smaller than the first one. Fermat doesnt write his proof → Mathematician struggle for centuries → Andrew Wiles proved it → 2^(1/3) is irrational

This made me chuckle!

Not sure if this is correct. FMT says this isn't true for whole numbers. But it says nothing about fractional numbers. So you could find fractional a and b for which this applies

Still more elegant than a 26-minutes long video about √2 being irrational

i love it

Which occasionally works for every other root power greater than 3 😃

The definition of overkill

2.78K subs ATM?! If this proves something Joseph Newton knows it lol

I did not see that one coming.

me using an integral to calculate the area of a triangle

lol - polite applause

Someone show this to Terrence Howard

The funniest thing is that you can't prove sqrt(2) is irrational with this

How about root of a fourth degree?

Jo what?

this is hilarious

lmao

LMAO

Is this circular? Does the proof of fermats last theorem require knowing about irrationality of cube roots of non cubic numbers anywhere?

For years this has been my favorite proof of this fact; Iʼm glad someone made a video about it.

I havn't laughed like that in a long time.