Saturday's 90-minute class is intended to be different. Courses that never go outdoors hike up to The Cabin for muffins and literature; faculty living rooms become classrooms; toaster ovens appear in math rooms. Food is a common theme. Here is an alarming image that looks like a co-ed slumber party from MTV's Real World but is actually a vocab game in Flynn's apartment with cocoa and pop corn:
It was the lawyer/part-time mathematician Pierre de Fermat who scribbled that the equation X squared + Y squared = Z squared has no non-zero solutions for X, Y and Z when n>2, and then claimed to have a proof that he didn't bother to write down....thereby sending mathematicians into the frantic pursuit of Fermat's Last Theorem for 350 years, when Andrew Wiles solved the puzzle (in 1997). Lee Carvalho's pre-calc class met in her TV room to see the NOVA documentary of Wiles's work. The menu featured cheese strata and Danish. At present, Winston knows nothing of Fermat's Last Theorem, but he's psyched about his upcoming cross-country race:
