The Shortest Research Paper Ever Published

The paper consisted of just two succinct sentences and it rebutted a mathematical precedent known as Euler’s conjecture, a theory proposed by Leonhard Euler in 1769. Euler proposed that the equation, an + bn = cn  doesn’t hold true if the value of  “n” is greater than “2”. Then in 1966, two mathematicians L.J. Lander and T.R. Parkin came along and swiftly overturned his claim with a counterexample:  275 + 845 + 1105 + 1335 = 1445

The paper was published in The Bulletin Of The American Mathematical Society in 1966.

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