Fermat never cared to publish his investigations, but was…

Fermat said he had a proof.

— Andrew Wiles

It is a matter for considerable regret that Fermat, who cultivated the theory of numbers with so much success, did not leave us with…

— Adrien-Marie Legendre

“I confess that Fermat 's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, for a multitude of such theorems can easily…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, because I could easily lay down a multitude of…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

A reply to Olbers' attempt in 1816 to entice him to work on Fermat's Theorem. I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.

— Alan Perlis

I realized that anything to do with Fermat's Last Theorem generates too much interest.

— Andrew Wiles

Before beginning [to try to prove Fermat's Last Theorem] I should have to put in three years of intensive study, and I haven't that…

— David Hilbert

I don't believe Fermat had a proof. I think he fooled himself into thinking he had a proof.

— Andrew Wiles

“Fermat’s last theorem,”

— Charles Krauthammer

“I carried this problem around in my head basically the whole time. I would wake up with it first thing in the morning, I…

— Anonymous

“It cannot be denied that he has had many exceptional ideas, and that he is a highly intelligent man. For my part, however, I…

— René Descartes

By the time I was a student in high school...I remember succeeding in proving the classic Fermat theorem about an integer multiplied by itself…

— John Nash

Some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and…

— Anonymous

I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early…

— Umberto Eco