I don't believe Fermat had a proof. I think he fooled himself into thinking he had a proof. — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
I realized that anything to do with Fermat's Last Theorem generates too much interest. — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
By the time I was a student in high school...I remember succeeding in proving the classic Fermat theorem about an integer multiplied… — John Nash Copy Share Image
“It cannot be denied that he has had many exceptional ideas, and that he is a highly intelligent man. For my part,… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
A reply to Olbers' attempt in 1816 to entice him to work on Fermat's Theorem. I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
Some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, because I could easily lay down a… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
“I carried this problem around in my head basically the whole time. I would wake up with it first thing in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fermat never cared to publish his investigations, but was always perfectly ready, as we see from his letters, to acquaint his friends… — Thomas Little Heath Copy Share Image
It is a matter for considerable regret that Fermat, who cultivated the theory of numbers with so much success, did not leave… — Adrien-Marie Legendre Copy Share Image
“I confess that Fermat 's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, for a multitude of such theorems… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
![“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 has very little interest for me, because I could easily lay down a multitude of such propositions, which one could neither prove nor dispose of. []” quote by Carl Friedrich Gauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/026/carl-friedrich-gauss-9412_interest_a-reply-to-olbers-attempt-in-1816-to-ent_2675593.jpg)
![“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. There's no reason why these problems shouldn't be easy, and yet they turn out to be extremely intricate. [Fermat's] Last…” quote by Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/948/anonymous-1_beautiful_some-mathematics-problems-look-simple-an_299446.jpg)
