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2 hours ago, Sunday21 said:

Classic and ancient texts with notes from their authors and early scholars written in the margins! 

http://www.annotatedbooksonline.com/

Books from Martin Luther's library with his notes! 

Newton's text with his notes! 

I know...I am so excited I can barely type!

The most famous thing about Pierre de Fermat (despite his much more useful "Little" Theorem) is a note he scribbled in a copy of Diophantus' Arithmetica - a proposition to the effect that a^n+b^n can never equal c^n when a, b, c and n are all whole numbers and n is 3 or greater, but that the proof of this would not fit in the margin. (Except of course he said it in Latin.)

After three hundred and fifty eight years of failed attempts by history's greatest mathematicians, Andrew Wiles (an English mathematician working at Princeton) proved that the statement was true. The proof ran to 109 pages, so it's hardly surprising Fermat couldn't find room for it!

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56 minutes ago, zil said:

IMO, at the very least, there are a lot of wolves wearing wool coats on that website.

I get the same vibe.  There's something a bit off about that site.

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