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本片从证明了费玛最后定理的安德鲁·怀尔斯开始谈起，描述了费玛最后定理的历史始末。
adj. 笨拙的，尴尬的，（设计）别扭的
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- But there was still a problem.
- 但仍存有一个问题。
- Late in the spring of '93 I was in this very awkward position
- 93年的暮春时分，我处于一个非常尴尬的境地，
- and I thought I'd got most of the curves to be modular,
- 我认为我已将大多数的曲线化为模形式，
- so that was nearly enough to be content to have Fermat's last theorem,
- 那对于证明费马最后定理来说已几近足够，
- but there was this, these few families of elliptic curves that had escaped the net.
- 但情况是，有少数椭圆曲线族仍无法纳入证明体系。
- I was sitting here at my desk in May of '93, still wondering about this problem,
- 93年的5月，我就坐在书桌这儿，仍在考虑这个难题，
- and I was casually glancing at a paper of Barry Mazur's
- 而我无意间瞥见了巴里·梅休尔的一篇论文，
- and there was just one sentence which made a reference to actually what's a 19th-century construction
- 其中只有一句话提及的实为19世纪时期的一个结构，
- and I just instantly realised that there was a trick that I could use,
- 我当即意识到其中有个技巧我可以用上，
- that I could switch from the families of elliptic curves I'd been using.
- 我可以将我正在使用的椭圆曲线族进行转换
- I'd been studying them using the prime three, I could switch and study them using the prime five.
- 以前是在用质数3来研究它们，我可以进行转换，用质数5来研究它们。
- It looked more complicated, but I could switch from these awkward curves that I couldn't prove were modular,
- 看起来是更复杂了，但我可以对这些棘手的我还不能证明其为模形式的曲线进行转换
- to a different set of curves which I'd already proved were modular
- 转为我已证明为模形式的另一种曲线族，
- and use that information to just go that one last step.
- 而且利用那信息来迈出最后一步。
- And I just kept working out the details, time went by and I forgot to go down to lunch.
- 我一直在钻研细节，时间过去了，我忘记了下楼吃午饭。
- It got to about teatime, I went down and Nada was very surprised that I'd arrived so late
- 到了下午茶时间，我下楼来，娜达非常惊讶我来得这么晚，
- and then I told her that I, I believed I'd solved Fermat's last theorem.
- 于是我告诉她，我相信我已经破解了费马最后定理。
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| awkward | ['ɔ:kwəd] | |||
| prime | [praim] | 联想记忆 | ||
| switch | [switʃ] | |||
| reference | ['refrəns] | 联想记忆 | ||
| construction | [kən'strʌkʃən] | 联想记忆 | ||
| complicated | ['kɔmplikeitid] |
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