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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I'm reading a book that made reference to this short story from Arthur Porges. It was written 40 or so years before Wiles completed a proof of Fermat's Last "Theorem", but it's still a fun twist on the usual deal-with-the-devil story. "The Devil and Simon Flagg":
https://archive.org/details/annette-peltz-mc-comas-the-eureka-years/page/254/mode/2up
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiles's%5Fproof%5Fof%5FFermat's%5FLast%5FTheorem