I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this problem will make young mathematicians realize that there are lots and lots of other problems in mathematics which are going to be just as challenging in the future.
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I realized that anything to do with Fermat's Last Theorem generates too much interest.Andrew Wiles
I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about.
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We've lost something that's been with us for so long, and something that drew a lot of us into mathematics. But perhaps that's always the way with math problems, and we just have to find new ones to capture our attention.
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There are proofs that date back to the Greeks that are still valid today.
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That particular odyssey is now over. My mind is now at rest.
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I don't believe Fermat had a proof. I think he fooled himself into thinking he had a proof.
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