Century Quote by Barry Mazur

“Fermat’s last theorem,”

— Charles Krauthammer

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

— Alan Perlis

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

— Andrew Wiles

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

Many of the proofs in mathematics are very long and intricate. Others, though not long, are very ingeniously constructed.

— Edward Charles Titchmarsh

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

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

There is an underlying timelessness in the basic conversation that is mathematics.

— Barry Mazur

One of the chief triumphs of modern mathematics consists in having discovered what mathematics really is.

— Bertrand Russell