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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Just Because
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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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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
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
Always try the problem that matters most to you.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know it's a rare privilege, but if one can really tackle something in adult life that means that much to you, then it's more rewarding than anything I can imagine.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about it all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night - and that went on for eight years.
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- Nov 07, 2020
That particular odyssey is now over. My mind is now at rest.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
The only way I could relax was when I was with my children.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It could be that the methods needed to take the next step may simply be beyond present day mathematics. Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm sure that some of them will be very hard and I'll have a sense of achievement again, but nothing will mean the same to me - there's no other problem in mathematics that could hold me the way that this one did.
- Mathematicians
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's also a sense of freedom. I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about if all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night, and that went on for eight years.
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- Nov 07, 2020