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...working to solve Fermat's theorem are full of perplexing problems, and so are other areas of math. A proof of Fermat's famous theorem by no means brings any line of inquiry to an end. Still bedeviling mathematicians are the Poincare Conjecture, the Riemann Hypothesis, Goldbach's Conjecture, Kepler's sphere-packing problem and dozens of others. There are, in short, enough mind-bending challenges to keep mathematicians busy for at least the next 350 years...
Astrology fell into disfavor beginning in the 15th century, he says, but pockets of belief existed even with the rise of astronomy. The famous astronomist Johannes Kepler, for instance, was a convinced astrologer...
Scientists, meanwhile, were demystifying the universe. Strangely, no one knows for sure who invented the telescope, but by 1609 Galileo Galilei had built one of his own. With it he was able to confirm the heretical speculations of Copernicus, Kepler and Tycho Brahe that the sun, not the earth, was the center of our universe. The specific origins of the microscope are equally obscure. In the 17th century, Robert Hooke used it to describe accurately the anatomy of a flea and the design of a feather; Antonie de Leeuwenhoek discovered a world of wriggling organisms in a drop of water...
...Virginia), 6-3, 6-2; 2. Schofield (V) def. Elmuts (H), 6-2, 6-4; 3. Cooper (H) def. Kerr (V), 7-5, 1-6, 6-1; 4. Parker (H) def. Holden (V), 6-1, 6-4; 5. D'Angio (V) def. Harris (H), 6-4, 6-1; 6. Kepler (V) def. Passent...
Elmuts and Minkus dropped their match at the number-two doubles spot, 7-5, 6-4, to Lapidus and McKeen, while Pollack and Captain Niki Rival lost to Kepler and Kopack...