Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge.
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Well, some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it turns out that they're extremely hard to solve.Andrew Wiles
Then when I reached college I realized that many people had thought about the problem during the 18th and 19th centuries and so I studied those methods.
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That particular odyssey is now over. My mind is now at rest.
Andrew Wiles
It's fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics along the way - even if you don't solve it at the end of the day.
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But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library.
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Fermat said he had a proof.
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