stackyFACTSPierre de Fermat was the ultimate academic troll. He scribbled a brilliant mathematical theorem in the margin of a book, adding that he had a truly marvelous proof but the margin was too small to contain it. He died without writing it down, leaving furious mathematicians to spend the next few centuries desperately trying to actually solve it.
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