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Nick Roberts wrote:
> 
> Furthermore, as a result of his search, he designed an entire new
> programming language which solved all the problems cited in the papers.
> Unfortunately, he died, and all that was found was a cryptic comment in the
> margin of his notebook saying "I have a wonderful solution for this" ;-)

I read in the news that one guy had been rewarded for coming up
with a proof for Fermat's theorem. He claimed that only the 100
top mathematicians in the world would be capable of understanding
his proof.

/jonas

PS Nick, I believe it was an English guy DS 
> 
> >Luis said
> >
> ><<Maybe these four papers don't exists at all. This reminds me of Fermat's
> >Last Theorem;
> >he claimed that he had the solution for the problem, yet never published.
> >Did he really had it?
> >Do these four papers exists at all?
> >
> >Luis Espinal.