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The Power of Good Question Provide by : BME141 What makes a good question? If you’re doing maths for fun, or are a professional mathematician, you answer is going to be different.（An easy question is boring） If you are a student facing exams, you might (understandably) say that good means easy. Where do these good questions come from? Generalize Simplify and vary Look for new tools Take risks Generalize an?+?bn?=?cn ? In?number theory,?Fermats Last Theorem?(sometimes called?Fermats conjecture, especially in older texts) states that no three?positive integers?a,?b, and?c?satisfy the equation?an?+?bn?=?cn?for any integer value of?n?strictly greater than two. The cases?n?=?1 and?n?=?2 have been known to have infinitely many solutions since antiquity. 350 years!? This theorem was first?conjectured by?Pierre de Fermat?in 1637 in the margin of a copy of?Arithmetica(算术) where he claimed he had a proof that was too large to fit in the margin.?The first successful proof?was released in 1994 by?Andrew Wiles, and formally published in 1995, after 358 years of effort by mathematicians.. It is among the most notable theorems in the?history of mathematics and prior to its proof, it was in the?Guinness Book of World Records?as the most difficult mathematical problem, one of the reasons being that it has the largest number of unsuccessful proofs. 万畅高清摄像机 万畅高清摄像机 万畅传输接入模块 万畅局端 模块和设备 视频枢纽 万局端模块 Fermat’s simple question turned out to be incredibly fruitful : it generated new mathematics, new insights and new ways of looking at things. Though hard, many mathematicians would regard this as a “good” question. Together with?René Descartes（笛卡尔）, Fermat was one of the two leading mathematicians of the first half of the 17th century. Simplify and vary Gallery problem A nice example is the art gallery problem:how many security guards do you need to be sure that together they can oversee the whole interior of an art gallery? Answer The first