纪录片《费马最后的定理》 第11期 谷山丰自杀

I think that when Shirmura and Taniyama first started talking about

我认为谷山丰和志村五郎开始讨论

the relationship between elliptic curves and modular forms, people were very incredulous.

椭圆曲线和模形式之间的关系时，大家都非常怀疑。

I wasn't studying mathematics yet.

我当时还不在研习数学

By the time I was a graduate student in 1969 or 1970, people were coming to believe the conjecture¹.

当1969年或1970年我是研究生时，大家开始相信这个猜想。

In fact, Taniyama-Shimura became a foundation for other theories which all came to depend on it.

事实上，谷山-志村猜想成为了其它依靠它而建立的理论的基础。

But Taniyama-Shimura was only a conjecture, an unproven idea,

但谷山-志村猜想毕竟只是个猜想，未经验证，

and until it could be proved, all the maths which relied on it were under threat.

而在它经验证之前，所有赖以建立的数理都面临威胁。

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Built more and more conjectures², stretched further and further into the future

建立起了越来越多的猜想，越来越扩展向未来，

but they would all be completely ridiculous if Taniyama-Shimura was not true.

但如果谷山-志村猜想不对，这所有的一切就都荒诞可笑。

Proving the conjecture became crucial,

验证这猜想至为关键

but tragically³, the man whose idea inspired it didn't live to see the enormous impact of his work.

但悲惨的是，创出这猜想的人没能活着看到他研究成果的巨大影响。

In 1958, Taniyama committed suicide.

1958年，谷山丰自杀了。

I was very much puzzled. Puzzlement may be the best word.

我感到非常困惑。'困惑'可能是最合适的字眼。

Of course I was sad, see it was so sudden and I was unable to make sense out of this.

当然我很难过，发生得如此突然，对于此事我完全不能理解。

1 conjecture   

n./v.推测，猜测

参考例句：

• She felt it no use to conjecture his motives.她觉得猜想他的动机是没有用的。
• This conjecture is not supported by any real evidence.这种推测未被任何确切的证据所证实。

2 conjectures   

推测，猜想( conjecture的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• That's weighing remote military conjectures against the certain deaths of innocent people. 那不过是牵强附会的军事假设，而现在的事实却是无辜者正在惨遭杀害，这怎能同日而语！
• I was right in my conjectures. 我所猜测的都应验了。

3 tragically   

adv. 悲剧地，悲惨地

参考例句：

• Their daughter was tragically killed in a road accident. 他们的女儿不幸死于车祸。
• Her father died tragically in a car crash. 她父亲在一场车祸中惨死。