The alien hypothesis?

[jporter]

On Oct 17, 2005, at 8:07 PM, John Doe wrote:

> Tell that to the mathematicians who worked on solving
> the Fermat problem; tell them their enthusiasm,
> obsession, passion was funded by the government...and
> that all the time and energy they spent on trying to
> solve the damn thing was subsidized by Uncle Sam for
> military purposes....
>

Was the proof of Fernat's Last Theorem science?

Seemed more like an exercise in pure mathematics
to me, but I'm not a scientist.

jody