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I loved doing problems in school. I'd take them home and make up new ones of my own. But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library. I was just browsing through the section of math books and I found this one book, which was all about one particular problem - Fermat's Last Theorem.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just because we can't find a solution it doesn't mean that there isn't one.
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Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know that there are no solutions up to infinity.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fermat said he had a proof.
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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.
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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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The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I realized that anything to do with Fermat's Last Theorem generates too much interest.
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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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I really believed that I was on the right track, but that did not mean that I would necessarily reach my goal.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe Fermat had a proof. I think he fooled himself into thinking he had a proof.
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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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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020