“Et peut-être la posterité me saura gré de lui avoir fait connaître que les Anciens n’ont pas tout su. ( And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown that the ancients did not know everything .)” — Pierre De Fermat 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 can easily be set up, which one could neither prove nor disprove. But I have been stimulated by… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image