The alien hypothesis?

[Richard Fiero]

At 07:32 PM 10/17/2005, jporter wrote:

>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

Fermat's theorem has application in cryptography the use of which is 
essential to the military.  Strong encryption is classified as a munition 
by the U.S.G.
Please try again, Mr. Doe.