{"id":1034254,"date":"2026-09-09T10:02:45","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T04:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1034254"},"modified":"2026-09-09T11:27:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T05:57:18","slug":"the-century-of-the-checker-will-it-matter-for-indias-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/09\/the-century-of-the-checker-will-it-matter-for-indias-story\/","title":{"rendered":"The century of the checker &amp; will it matter for India\u2019s story?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A machine has finished the most famous proof in mathematics in eleven days. The next decade belongs to whoever can tell the truth from output <\/p>\n<p>Sometime around 1637, a French lawyer named Pierre de Fermat was reading a Greek textbook and had a thought. He noted it in the margin. <\/p>\n<p>The claim was simple enough for a schoolchild. You can easily find whole numbers where 3\u00b2 + 4\u00b2 = 5\u00b2. Try the same with cubes, or fourth powers, or anything above the square, and you will never find any. Then Fermat added the most famous sentence in the history of mathematics. He had discovered a marvellous proof, he wrote, but this margin was too narrow to contain it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A machine has finished the most famous proof in mathematics in eleven days. The next decade belongs to whoever can tell the truth from output Sometime around 1637, a French lawyer named Pierre de Fermat was reading a Greek textbook and had a thought. He noted it in the margin. The claim was simple enough for a schoolchild. You can easily find whole numbers where 3\u00b2 + 4\u00b2 = 5\u00b2. Try the same with cubes, or fourth powers, or anything above the square, and you will never find any. Then Fermat added the most famous sentence in the history of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,4,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034255,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034254\/revisions\/1034255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}