Interest Quote by 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

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

— Andrew Wiles

“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 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

Fermat said he had a proof.

— Andrew Wiles

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

— Alan Perlis

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

A felicitous but unproved conjecture may be of much more consequence for mathematics than the proof of many a respectable theorem.

— Atle Selberg

Any good theorem should have several proofs, the more the better.

— Michael Atiyah

“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