Word: krieger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...third century B.C., a Greek mathematician named Archimedes jumped from his bath, rushed home naked and dripping, shouting "Eureka, eureka!" He had just discovered an important physical principle. In 1937 A.D., a German-Jewish mathematician named Samuel Isaac Krieger, who was taking a mineral bath near Buffalo, N. Y., suddenly leaped out, rushed naked into the adjoining room, began to scribble figures. He thought he had discovered something too: a solution to the equation given in Fermat's last theorem...
Samuel Isaac Krieger arrived in the U. S. from Germany some ten years ago, self-billed as a mathematical wizard and armed with a letter purporting to be a yip of praise from no less a personage than Albert Einstein. He quickly convinced reporters that he was indeed a marvel at quick mental calculation. He would say, "Think of a number from one to a bil lion," multiply the number given by a smaller number and have the answer in a few seconds. He would ask a newshawk for the date of his birth and then, after a moment...
When he hit on his bathroom solution of Fermat's equation, Krieger at once cabled to Göttingen asking whether the 100,000-mark prize was still there. Back came the answer: "Preis besteht noch" (Prize still stands). Krieger doubted, however, that Adolf Hitler would allow the money to leave Germany, especially since the claimant was conspicuously non-Aryan. A matter which he apparently overlooked was that the prize is offered for proof of the theorem, whereas his solution, if valid, would constitute disproof...
HARVARD '41 DARTMOUTH '41 Lovett, l.e. r.e. Larrigan Tibbetts. l.t. r.t. Winship Lacey, l.g. r.g. Dacey Townsend, c. c. Phelan Lowry, r.g. l.g. Young Elser, r.t. l.t. Hadden Koufman, r.e. l.e. Kelley James, q.b. q.b. Courter Gardells, l.h.b. r.h.b. Bowe Donahue, r.h.b. l.h.b. Krieger Budlong, f.b. f.b. Norton...
Wrong. Adding 2 to the Krieger number makes it divisible...