Interest Quote by 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

“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

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

— Andrew Wiles

Fermat said he had a proof.

— Andrew Wiles

“Fermat’s last theorem,”

— Charles Krauthammer

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

— Andrew Wiles

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

— Alan Perlis

“When people asked hilbert why he didn't prove Fermat's Last Theorem and win the Wolfskehl Prize, he said, "Why should I kill the goose…

— Constance Bowman Reid

The proof of Fermat's Last Theorem underscores how stable mathematics is through the centuries - how mathematics is one of humanity's long continuous conversations…

— Barry Mazur

“Mathematicians have, according to Wright, been "unreasonably successful" in finding applications to apparently useless theorems, and often years after the theorems were first discovered.”

— Alex Bellos

“The first successes were such that one might suppose all the difficulties of science overcome in advance, and believe that the mathematician, without being…

— Joseph Bertrand